Archaeologists working in Tel Kedesh in northern Israel have uncovered an extremely rare 2,200-year-old gold coin, minted in Alexandria by King Ptolemy V. The head of the Coin Department of the Israel ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient King Ptolemy III, an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra. The coin, which bears the image of the King on one of its ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now and Friday Focus podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's features. Archaeologists have ...

During excavations of Givati Parking Lot, the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a tiny and special gold coin in the soil that belonged to Queen Berenice II, the wife of Egyptian king Ptolemy III ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a rare, miniature gold coin that depicts the Egyptian queen Berenice II and dates to the reign of her husband, the third ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ...

A rare coin depicting Queen Berenice II of Egypt that dates back to Jerusalem’s Hellenistic era was discovered in the City of David, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday. Made of ...