Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer ...

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In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...