to find such a special and ancient buried treasure." "The cache, deliberately buried in the ground inside a clay jug, held 424 gold coins, with most dated to the early Islamic period and the ...

In 2021, an anonymous bidder purchased the coin for $9.36 million in an auction. The 723 Umayyad Gold Dinar is an ancient Islamic coin minted during the reign of Yazid II of the Umayyad Caliphate ...

An article published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Policy, “Ancient Muslim Texts Confirm ... bath found under the al-Aqsa mosque and Islamic coins with a Jewish menorah imprinted ...

Instead, almost 1,400 years on, the coins have been found by Israeli archaeologists, who hailed the discovery as a rare glimpse into an ancient past ... hidden during the Muslim conquest of ...

(photo credit: Israel Antiquities Authority) Israel Police managed to recover 21 ancient coins, ranging from the Hasmonean era to the Muslim period, from an east Jerusalem resident who had ...

A trove of ancient coins and gems has been unearthed in northern Italy, marking the latest treasure discovery in an ongoing archaeological effort to explore Claterna, a bygone city described by ...

A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia's coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins. Italy’s culture ministry said Saturday that the diver ...