Archaeologists believe that the coins—based on their location underneath a Helensitic house—were meant to pay off mercenaries. Fighting between the Persian and Athenian armies in the ancient Greek ...
The discovery was part of a "vast fortune carried by the fleet, which was transporting New World riches back to Spain," the ...
The heist was the latest in a string of thefts at museums in France. Thieves broke into a gallery at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris overnight Monday and stole nuggets of raw gold ...
What happened in the days and years next is the subject of PBS’ “Masterpiece” enthralling series “The Gold,” which traces the ...
Governments are overleveraged, households are sitting on a record $18.39 trillion in debt and investors are trading on an ...
The theft at the National Museum of Natural History this week is the latest in a wave of heists hitting cultural institutions ...
It succeeded spectacularly—it gave us mass prosperity—which is greater on ontological grounds than any failure.
Silver and platinum have gone along for the ride with gold this year as precious metals continue benefitting from an uncertain economic and policy environment.