In the middle of the sixth century B.C., King Croesus of Lydia minted the world's first gold coin. Known as a stater or ...

Family and friends packed 3 Dots Downtown to celebrate State College Borough Council member Gopal Balachandran’s 50th ...

The names of the ROMAN PROVINCES (or other significant regions) are in bold capital letters below; their first-century capital ... Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea - the cities of the ...

Coin weights were the pocket-sized guardians of fair trade. Before modern banking, coin weights ensured fair transactions and ...

Ash Wednesday occurred earlier this week and it marks the first day of Lent. The Christian church set this date in the fourth century by counting back 40 days from ...

Pontypridd booked their spot in the final of the Welsh Premiership Cup with a 53-14 win over Newbridge at the Gnoll. A brace of tries from Dale Stuckey and Joe Davies were accompanied by scores from ...

Rome and Ostia to this day are pockmarked with remnants of Jewish heritage: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

The Egyptian antiquities authority announced that for the first time in over a century, the tomb of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been discovered. Authorities stated that the tomb served as the ...