A metal detectorist uncovered the hoard of 1,368 ancient coins, mostly silver denarii from the Roman era, in a pot in ...

While the coins were buried during Nero's reign, some of them were minted earlier. All but one of the coins in the hoard are ...

It was rumoured that Nero had started the blaze, and later accounts claim he played the fiddle while the city burned. This can’t be true since fiddles didn’t exist in Roman times (although ...

While the coins were buried during Nero's reign, some of them were minted earlier. All but one of the coins in the hoard are silver denarii, a standard Roman coin, that were minte ...