In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes, although murder was not one of them. The first death sentence ...

Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy In the early 19th century, Japan was a feudal society ruled ... The Xiongnu Empire formed in Mongolia in the late 3rd century BC and lasted for roughly 300 years.

Researchers think the site in the Netherlands may have been used for pagan worship in reaction to the spread of Christianity.

The earliest coins ... Other coins were minted under Allectus, Diocletian and Maximian, meaning that the "youngest" of the coins dates back to the fourth century AD. Leicester, the county seat ...

The two small bone objects are disk-shaped, about size of a half-dollar coin, and date to the fifth-century A.D. Each one a symbol etched onto it, Celikbas said, according to a translated ...

A hoard of bronze coins unearthed in the remains of a Hellenistic-era building offers new evidence for life in Israel in the tumultuous mid-2nd century ... published for the first time in an ...

Archaeologists Stunned by a Stash of 1600-Year-Old Roman Gold Coins, Depicting the Profiles of Different Roman Emperors A ...

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During construction at a 13th century church in Gardelegen, Germany, volunteers found over 1,000 artifacts that spanned seven centuries of history. Among the discoveries were 679 coins ...

A coin hoard dating to the 15th century has been discovered near a ... latest issue of the American Journal of Numismatics. The earliest of the Venetian coins dates to the time that Francesco ...