A metal detectorist from Cornwall is 'still getting shivers' after discovering ancient gold in his front garden. Mike Burke, 54, from St Just, had only been metal detecting for a year since his wife ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Matthams Spencer is a Paris-based writer who covers jewelry. The opposite of its better-known cousin, the cameo, intaglio is ...

An ancient ring believed to depict Rome's first emperor has sold at a Birmingham auction house for a whopping £117,000 after being valued at just £200. The 2,000 year old ring, featuring the head of ...

Intaglio is an ancient carving technique for adding details to a workpiece, by manually removing material from a surface with only basic hand tools. If enough material depth is removed, the resulting ...

This Roman intaglio depicts the godess Fortuna and was carved in the first century AD. I think of all that it has seen over the past two millenia. I don't know where it was carved - anywhere in the ...