Strolling through your fruit garden, and then coming across a treasure hoard full of coins! Well this time around, the scenario is not that of a role-playing game. A Swiss farmer had the very same real experience while he was inspecting his cherry orchard in Ueken, in the canton of Aargau. The incredible discovery was…
Almost 300 years ago on this day, 12 ships of a fleet of 13 were sunk by a hurricane off the coast of Florida. Starting off from Cuba (which was then a Spanish colony), the ships were home-bound to mainland Spain, and as such carried a hoard of valuables. And now in 2015, a team…
2015 has surely been a good year for finding treasures - be it the Fatimid gold coins or the silver decadrachms from Alexander's era. However, this time around, archaeologists may have very well come across the 'mother lode' in terms of sheer value - with researchers pinpointing the location of a shipwreck of a 15th…
Israel Antiquities Authority is surely having a fine run in the last few weeks. Last month, they (initially aided by amateur divers) came across a stash of over a 2,000 gold coins dating from 11th century AD. And now, the archaeologists have discovered an enviable cache of jewelry and silver coins from an ancient epoch…
At its zenith during the 11th century, the Fatimid Caliphate with its later royal capital based in Cairo (al-Qāhira), spanned most of North Africa (also known as Maghreb), the sea-bordering Hijaz (west of the Red Sea), Levant (by Asiatic Mediterranean) and even Sicily. The Shia faith-fueled empire was mostly known for its cultural achievements, religious tolerance…