Discovered in southern England, the collection features dozens of gold and silver coins dating to the 15th and 16th centuries ...
A couple in southern England were working in their garden, adjusting a fence post. As they dug into the clay soil near their flower bed, they hit something unexpected—a handful of small, round objects ...
The hoard includes coins from the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, Henry VII, and Henry VIII, along with three of his wives.
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The British Museum is fighting to acquire the Tudor Heart, a gold pendant from the early 16th century. The national treasure ...
In 2019, a metal detectorist from Birmingham, England, found buried treasure: a 500-year-old gold necklace inscribed with the initials of King Henry-the-Eighth and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.
In 1530, at Hampton Court Palace, King Henry VIII and his advisers penned a letter to Rome. In it, for the first time, Henry threatened to break with the Vatican and split off from the Catholic Church ...