The Houthi-run central bank in Sanaa is giving Yemen’s battered currency a metallic makeover. Starting Sunday, a shiny new 50 ...

Saudi Arabia has launched a museum that is dedicated exclusively to Islamic art. The House of Islamic Arts, located in Jeddah ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient Byzantine mosaic in Dara, revealing the Greek-influenced city's military and religious ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very good metal detector from abroad” with “very good sonar” and he promises ...

Discover the fascinating world of coins worth millions of dollars and learn about the rarest and most valuable coins in circulation today.

A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of history—and some distinct designs. The small gold coin discovered in the ...

An interesting fact about gold is that it can never be destroyed. You can melt, atomise, and dissolve it, but it never truly ‘dies’. The only real way to do that is to cast it back to whence it came, ...

These coins were inscribed with Persian and Arabic texts, such as “Zarb-i-Kashmir” (minted in Kashmir), and were used to exercise the power of the Muslim rulers.

Some 424 solid gold coins dating from 1,100 years ago were found during an archaeological dig in central Israel. The coins were found after two National ...

The king did trade with Muslim rulers abroad and even produced a dinar (gold coin), with both his name and the Shahadah (declaration of Islamic faith) inscribed on it.