A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD

Stater Of Pyrrhos I Nike Holding A Trophy 278 BC

Bringing to life the people of ancient Greece, the Onassis Cultural Center New York presented the exhibition "A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC – 200 AD" in 2019. Cup with Achilles Slaying Penthesileia, ca. 470–460 BC

Bronze vessel was made in Pharsalos about 370 BC.

The exhibition brought together more than 130 ancient masterpieces.

Amphora with Scene of Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game 540 BC

Artifacts and Mummies Discovered in Ancient Egyptian Tomb

In 2019 Egypt confirmed an ancient tomb had been found carved in stone from the Greco-Roman period in Aswan, 539 miles south of Cairo.

The Greco-Roman Period (332 B.C.-395 A.D.) saw the rise of Alexander the Great who conquered the Persians who ruled over Egypt at the time, and founded Alexandria, the second largest city in Egypt.

Small Ba bird statues were recovered which, according to ancient Egyptian mythology, was believed to fly out of the person’s tomb to join their vital essence in the afterlife.

The tomb contained about 30 mummies, including young children. There were also gold-painted funeral masks, statuettes, amphora-shaped jugs, ritual offering vases, vessels still containing food, coffin fragments, a lamp, and white cartonnages. One of the coffins presented a complete text, detailing the name of the tomb’s owner, Tjt.

$20 gold coin from 'Ship of Gold' makes $282k

The spectacular 1857-S Double Eagle, recovered in 2014 from the SS Central America set a record price for any 1857 San Francisco Mint $20 gold coin in a public auction conducted by Legend Rare Coin Auctions on May 16, 2019. The sunken treasure Double Eagle, graded PCGS MS67, sold for $282,000.

Gallic treasure - Treasure of Tavers

It was feared that the treasure would be sold at a price that could not be matched by museums and it would leave the country.

The 'Treasure of Tavers' hoard was declared a national treasure of France and purchased for €50.000 in 2019. It comprises 58 copper alloy and seven iron and lead pieces, including five full torque necklaces, eighteen bracelets (including six whole), four rings of pegs, three weapons and fragments of crockery. The rare metalwork would have sold for much, much more at auction.

65 pieces of metal, buried 2600 years ago by Gauls, is exceptionally rare. It dates to the protohistoric period, several centuries before the roman conquest.

Captain Black Sam Bellamy - The Whydah Galley

In February 1717 Captain Black Sam Bellamy captured the Whydah and made it his flagship. It's said that when the Whydah was wrecked off Cape Cod in a storm on 26 April 1717, Bellamy, 28, had been heading for Boston with a vast fortune on board. Bellamy, the “Robin Hood of the sea” was the highest-earning pirate of all time. Bellamy’s fleet captured over fifty vessels. The site on the shores of Cape Cod may contain the bones of as many as 102 men whose corpses remained after the Whydah sank. The Whydah was found buried beneath 18 feet of sand in 25 feet of water 1,500 feet from the shore in 1984.

The shipwreck has yielded over 200,000 artifacts, including treasure and the ship's bell. Coins recovered from the site represent a cross-section of global commerce in the early 18th century, spanning multiple mints, dates, and origins. Investigators discovered what they think are the remains of Bellamy himself.

A leg bone was found among sand and debris, next to a pistol said by the researchers to have unique features and symbols that prove it was one of Bellamy’s flintlocks.

Rare Judaean and Roman coins

The First Jewish Revolt was 66-70 CE.

An extremely rare shekel produced in Year 4 plus the ultimate rarity–a Year 5 shekel. The Second Revolt was circa 132-135 CE.

Very rare Judaea Capta type gold aureus features a Roman trophy with the inscription DE IVDAEIS Extremely rare hybrid features the strange legend IVDAEA AUGUST.

Titus, AD 79-81. Gold Aureus. A true rarity, the date is early in AD 70, which places it before or during the siege of Jerusalem (May-September 70). Roman Emperor Galba ruled for eight months from AD 68 to 69

1,400-year-old royal tomb in U.K.

A painted wooden box fragment

An underground chamber discovered by road workers appears to be the site of the earliest Christian royal burial ever found in Britain. Researchers are calling it the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of King Tutankhamun's tomb. The chamber was uncovered between a road and a railway line in the southeastern English village of Prittlewell in 2003.

Archeologists say it is the most important Anglo-Saxon burial discovery in more than 70 years. Treasures unearthed at the site include a golden belt buckle, the remnants of a lyre, and gleaming imported glassware.

It's thought to be the burial chamber of Seaxa, the brother of Anglo-Saxon King Saebert. Fragments of tooth enamel, the only human remains uncovered, revealed the occupant of the rich burial was just over 6 years old.

Sæberht, Saberht or Sæbert was the King of Essex from c. 604 to c. 616. In another burial, an Anglo-Saxon prince who could have been a relative of King Saebert, may have been buried clutching gold coins in each hand. The coins were found inside the remnants of the man's wooden coffin, positioned where his hands likely would have been.

Pot of gold coins discovered in ancient Greek city

A pot full of gold coins was found inside a room beneath a home in Notion, an ancient Greek city in western Turkey in 2024. Notion is a well-preserved and almost completely unexplored ancient city. The discovery of such a valuable find is extremely rare. The darics were likely minted in Sardis, located 97km northeast of Notion sometime during the fifth century B.C. According to the Greek historian Xenophon, a single daric was equivalent to a soldier's pay for one month.

The Hellenistic period occurred after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and lasted until the conquest of the final Hellenistic kingdom by Rome in 31 B.C. During the sixth century B.C., Notion was incorporated into the Persian Empire along with other Greek cities. In the early fifth century B.C., it was freed from Persian rule. Between 430 and 427 B.C., a group of Persian sympathizers, as well as Greek mercenaries, occupied Notion. Athenian general Paches killed Persian mercenaries and expelled Persian sympathizers. Its thought the hoard was left behind.

Notion was at the epicenter of the tumultuous period of the last few centuries BCE and 1st century CE, when many settlements of Ionia and adjacent regions were re-founded, moved to new locations, or incorporated into other communities (synoikism).

Ancient Greek City Bargylia for Sale - $7m

The Ancient Greek city of Bargylia, dating back to the 5th century BC and located in Asia Minor near Gulluk Bay on the northern coast of the Bodrum Peninsula, has been on the market for at least ten years. The initial price of 22 million Turkish Liras ($10 million USD at the time) was repeatedly reduced. It remains privately owned by multiple shareholders, as it has been since 1927.

There are extensive ruins at Bargylia, including the remnants of a temple, a theatre, a defensive wall and a palaestra.

The ancient city of Bargylia was said to have been founded by Bellerophon in honour of his companion Bargylos, who had been killed by a kick from the winged horse Pegasus. Bargylia was an important religious center, famous for the Temple of Artemis Kindyàs. Artemis Kindyàs and Pegasus often appeared on the city’s coinage.

The city is a Grade 1 archaeological site. A newspaper reported that since no buyer had been found the price has been dropped again.

The ancient city of about 81.5 acres has been falling into disrepair. “We hear the sounds of treasure hunters at night, but we cannot do anything out of fear” a local said.

A long-abandoned monastery in Bargylia now serves as an animal shelter and cows graze among the ruins. A proper archaeological dig has never been performed at Bargylia so it is unknown what treasures lie there.