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Pectoral with coins: 'One of the most intricate pieces of gold jewelry to survive from the mid-sixth century'

The gold pectoral is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. A total of 14 gold coins and two ...
Fox News

History's dumping ground: 400 Byzantine coins, gold jewelry found discarded in refuse pit

Hundreds of ancient coins, oil lamps and gold jewelry have been discovered in Israel, mysteriously thrown away centuries ago in a Byzantine garbage dump. The excavation site is located on the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Gold Coins Were Stashed in a Stone Wall Nearly 1,400 Years Ago

The 44 solid gold coins dating back to the Byzantine era were discovered at the Hermon Stream Nature Reserve. Israel Antiquities Authority Israeli archaeologists have discovered a secret stash of ...
Daily Express

Archaeologists 'thrilled' by 'rare and unexpected' gold treasure found in Israel

Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) encountered the "rare and unexpected" artefacts to the north of Tel Aviv, at Ramat Ha-Sharon. Archaeological excavations in preparation for the ...
Los Angeles Times

Rapt in Byzantine gold at Getty Villa’s ‘Heaven and Earth’

Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...