Buried below the ancient ruins is a lode of copper ore ... of Siddhartha Gautama before he became the Buddha. Cascades of copper coins from the third to seventh centuries A.D. have also spilled ...

Villagers in Tarsus, Turkey, uncovered an ancient ceramic jar filled with over 1,100 silver coins while digging a grave.

Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site ...

a center of the copper trade, which was the island’s main source of wealth. Unlike the nearby ancient city of Salamis whose Roman ruins stand to this day (not to be confused with the Island of ...