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 ...

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 hoard of early 4th Century Roman coins is believed to be the largest of its type ever discovered in Britain. More than 3,000 copper alloy coins were found by two metal detectorists near the ...

"Forgeries would have had a thin plating of silver over a copper core and so if you pushed ... an academic who studies ancient coins at Warwick University, said it was "wonderful" to see the ...

Police have prevented attempts to smuggle a large quantity of relics, including ancient coins, in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, provincial director for information and culture Abdul Shakor ...