Discovered in the Givati parking lot of Jerusalem, the coin was minted for Queen Berenice II, wife of the Hellenistic ruler Ptolemy III of Egypt. A tiny but extremely rare gold coin dating back over 2 ...

More than 1,500 years ago, a thriving harbor town southwest of Alexandria, Egypt, was a trading center known for its impressive architecture and tasty wine. Recent excavations in the city known as ...

A rare collection of ancient coins was discovered last week by Israeli researchers, who called the find an "archaeological Hanukkah miracle." The coins are more than 2,000 years old and believed to ...

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian ...