When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

Israel's Central Bank Governor Amir Yaron speaks to Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz about the economic uncertainties from the ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

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He then ridiculed memecoins, specifically Dogecoin, calling them “Joke coins”. However, he still seemed somewhat confident in his faithful Bitcoin, which he called the “King of Cryptos.” It seemed as ...

Under Cyrus, the Persian Empire became the hegemonic power in the East. Despite beginning his reign as a vassal king subject to the Median Empire, which he would later conquer, Cyrus was fierce ...

Coinage played a part in spreading the fame of kings - the more often coins passed through men's hands, and the further afield they were taken by plunder or trade, the more famous their Royal sponsors ...

The mission was a total failure, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king, Darius the Great. In a desperate ...

According to the Mahavamsa, Anuradhapura was ruled by a foreign king, Elara in the ... trade which went through the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Their vessels were already traversing deep into ...

Justin Sun loves a publicity stunt. But in bailing out Donald Trump’s crypto venture—netting the president and his family $400 million—Sun has boosted his efforts to create a global payment ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A King Charles III 50 pence coin has sold on eBay for more than £250. The first coins with King Charles' official portrait on began ...