About two years ago, a metal detectorist unearthed a small gold pendant near the town of Attleborough in Norfolk, England. It was designed to look like a Roman coin ... with a cross on it.

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort. The team unearthed 141 ...