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Someone used this mysterious coin as bus fare in the 1950s. It turned out to be 2,000-year-old currency minted by the Phoenicians
When Peter Edwards visited his grandfather’s house as a child, he’d often leave with a few interesting coins in his pocket. They were usually fake or foreign pieces his grandfather, James Edwards, had ...
A Phoenician bronze coin from the first century BC, minted in ancient Gadir (modern Cádiz), was discovered in a Leeds bus fare box. Featuring the god Melqart and bluefin tuna, the coin reflects ...
An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.
Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...
When you think of famous BCE-era civilizations, some that immediately spring to mind are probably the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egyptians, and other such societies that flourished around the ...
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