A team did just that by showing that Byzantine silver found its way into Anglo Saxon coins by A.D. 700, according to an article in Antiquities. Historians had known for decades that, from around A ...

Byzantine coin found. Credit: Wdecki Park Krajobrazowy The situation took an even ... The hypothesis suggests that the soldier collected ancient coins as a hobby or perhaps exchanged or acquired them ...

The Byzantine Empire was the eastern ... Emperor Heraclius's family Apart from the gold coins, the excavation - in a residential quarter of the ancient city - also uncovered the remains of ...

Archaeologists working for the park found a collection of ancient ... About 30 coins were found in total, some of them dating all the way back to the Roman and Byzantine empires.