The Byzantine economy thrived in the Middle Ages, contrasting sharply with the decentralized system of Western feudalism.

A metal detectorist discovered in the county of Innlandet, in inland Norway, a rare histamenon nomisma (literally standard coin), a Byzantine solid gold coin, minted in Constantinople around the year ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...

A metal detectorist unearthed an ancient gold coin depicting Jesus Christ from the Byzantine Empire in Norway. Martine Kaspersen, Innlandet county municipality Approximately 1,000 years ago in ...

Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region's rule by the Ottoman Empire. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Ilan Ben Zion is an AFP reporter and a former news editor at The Times of Israel. As a Persian army supported by a horde of Jewish rebels marched on Jerusalem in 614 CE, Christians inhabiting a town ...