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 ...

A 2,000-year-old garnet ring from ancient Rome that is believed to have an image of the first Roman emperor sold for nearly 600 times its expected price at a recent jewelry auction in England. The ...

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 ...

A volunteer, digging near the cold stone of Hadrian’s Wall, made a startling discovery: an ancient silver ring featuring a delicately carved intaglio. The find pulls the curtain back on the lives of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Whiling away lockdown in Birmingham, Ben Steele, a second-generation jeweller, stumbled across an Instagram ...

Mike Burke had only been metal detecting for a year after his wife bought him the device for Christmas. Credit: BPM Media A metal detectorist from Cornwall is "still getting shivers" after discovering ...

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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 ...

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 ...