For much of the 12th century, Sweden was not yet a unified state. Regional rulers, shifting alliances and religious ...

Researchers have unraveled the mysterious origins of silver that was used to make coins during the early medieval period in Europe. For a study published in the journal Antiquity, a team of experts ...

Intricate golden jewelry is displayed on black velvet. A metal detectorist in the Netherlands has discovered dazzling gold and silver treasures that were buried in a medieval swamp 800 years ago, ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

Archaeologists discovered a collection of coins thought to be nearly 1,000 years old at the site of a medieval fort in southern Poland. Researchers found 12 silver coins at the fortress, which is ...

A fisherman near Stockholm has discovered a buried copper container holding around 20,000 medieval silver coins and pieces of ...

A metal detectorist discovered this silver thimble while scanning the grounds of Carew Castle. National Museum Cardiff Metal detectorist Robert Edwards was searching at Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, ...

Archaeologists in Czechia found a 900-year-old “jackpot” of more than 2,000 silver coins after a woman stumbled on some coins, an institute said. Photo from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy ...

Museum curators in the Netherlands think that a dazzling, 800-year-old array of gold jewelry and silver coins unearthed by a metal detectorist was buried in a medieval swamp to save it during wartime.