The coin was found on a wild farm by a man who investigated an old collection handed down to him by his grandfather, a farmer in the Paris region. When the man was rummaging through the old collection ...

Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discovered that Byzantine bullion fueled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, ...

Charlemagne’s long war against the Saxons was one of the most relentless conflicts of the early Middle Ages. The clash at ...

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