until appraisers said it was an ancient Persian artifact. The 5½-inch gold cup, which experts have dated to the third or fourth century B.C., fetched $100,000 at an auction in Dorchester ...

This logistical chain reflects the impressive reach of the Roman Empire ... ancient world’s most remarkable artifacts: a ...

Images of a kneeling archer were sculpted on the coins, indicating that they were darics, a type of currency used in the ancient Persian Empire ... pottery and other artifacts when they were ...

At stake are the thousands of 2,500-year-old clay artifacts known as the Persepolis tablets. Excavated in the 1930s, the tablets describe the workings of the Persian Empire in an ancient dialect ...