Archaeologists find more than 40 Roman coins and melted jewelry in a burned chest from the third century AD in Histria.

Archaeologists unearthed a rare piece of Roman jewelry made from 2nd or 3rd century rock crystal in their five-year-long excavation of a Roman settlement on Britain's west coast. The jewel, which has the head of a bearded man carved into the back, is ...

LONDON - While the Roman Empire flourished over a thousand years ago, it seems its citizens dealt with problems all too common today. British archeologists have discovered ancient artifacts including coins, rings and other jewelry that were once ...

A thrift store in Canada was selling a collection of antique rings and medallions for about 20 US dollars when it learned the jewelry was from ancient times.

Imagine the angst that a rich Roman woman must have felt in the year 61 when she had to abandon her gold and silver jewelry, buried beneath the floor of a house in the British town of Colchester. Almost two millennia later, those treasures have been ...

Ancient Roman general (and later emperor) Vitellius was said to have financed an entire military campaign by selling one of his mother’s pearl earrings. Back in the first century A.D., the Queen of Gems was a rarity, expensive and reserved exclusively ...

These jewelery hawkers were sitting on a gold mine! A treasure trove of rare ancient Roman jewelry was discovered under a department store in England — which happens to sell the modern-day versions. The 2,000-year-old bling includes three gold armlets, a ...

An ancient well with the skeletal remains of seven men was discovered by archaeologists in eastern Croatia. They believe the men were once Roman soldiers who fought in the Battle of Mursa in 260 CE. Though the remains were originally recovered in 2011, the analysis was only recently released in PLOS One journal.

In 2011, a mass grave with seven skeletons was discovered in an ancient well in Osijek, Croatia (the Roman city of Mursa). Now, analysis suggests that the skeletons belonged to seven men who were Roman soldiers. Four of the seven skeletons belonged to younger adults and three to middle-aged adults.

A bronze, temple-shaped box dating back over 1,700 years was discovered in central Romania, officials with the Turda History Museum announced in late September. Archaeologists unearthed the box over the summer in the city of Turda, which was a civilian settlement under ancient Roman rule from around the 1st century until the late 3rd century.