Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Since the twelfth century, the coinage of the realm has been assayed in an arcane ritual known as the Trial of ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient hilltop settlement in southern Austria discovered the remains of a richly decorated ivory box that is some 1,500 years old—the first such artifact to be found in ...

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This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Archaeologists recently dug up an ancient reliquary in Austria, and we may find out just where it came from—and even what holy treasures it once held.

"Now, don't drop any coins," says genial goldsmith Warren Benbow. "It's remarkably difficult to find them on this carpet." So begins this year's Trial of the Pyx, an ancient and annual ceremony to ...