Category: Treasure

Digger driver unearths 3,300 Roman coins reversing bulldozer at Yeovil Rec

A bulldozer driver levelling a recreation ground for a hockey pitch unearthed a hoard of 3,339 Roman coins.The coins, mainly of silver, include depictions of […]

Man With Metal Detector Finds Roman-Era Grave

A man in England went exploring with a metal detector and made the discovery of a lifetime: an exquisitely preserved Roman-era grave filled with artifacts, […]

The Amazing Sky Calendar That Ancients Used to Track Seasons

Henry Westphal is tired. It’s July 4, 1999, a Sunday. He and a friend are climbing the Mittelberg or “Central Hill,” a small mountain near […]

REVEALED: The tunnels that may hide 3 Nazi trains full of looted treasure

A TRAIN thought to be packed with treasure looted by the Nazis could be just one of three hidden in secret tunnels in Poland, experts […]

How our brains trick us into seeing crabs on Mars, not to mention Jesus on toast

To the folks at UFO Sightings Daily, NASA’s archive of Mars images from its Curiosity rover is better than a candy shop. Every visit yields […]

Book aims to shed light on mystery of King John’s treasure

The mystery of King John’s treasure – lost somewhere in the Wash in 1216 while travelling to Swineshead is being examined in a new book.’The […]

Silver coins worth £1m found on farm

A hoard of Anglo Saxon coins worth over £1 million has been discovered by metal detectorists on a Christmas dig.The massive hoard of more than […]

Antiquities thief busted with over 800 ancient coins

Hundreds of ancient coins and ancient artifacts were found at a suspected antiquities thief’s house in Beit Shemesh last week after the man was caught […]

1,100 year old coin found in Mildenhall declared as treasure

A coin minted more than 1100 years ago and uncovered in a field near Mildenhall has been declared treasure at an inquest.The silver penny from […]

CT scans of treasure chest reveal hidden brooches, gold ingots and ivory beads

The mystery surrounding the contents of a Viking pot has been solved after researchers carried out a CT scan on the ancient artefact.Archaeologists had been […]

Treasure hunter discovers hoard of 22,000 Roman coins

A hoard of 22,000 Roman coins has been unearthed on land near Seaton in East Devon.The “Seaton Down Hoard” of copper-alloy Roman coins is one […]

7 Places You Could Actually Find Buried Treasure Yes, You Get to Keep It!

In 1988, treasure hunter Tommy Thompson uncovered tens of millions of dollars of gold from the shipwreck of the S.S. Central America sunk deep off […]

Stockton Treasure Hunter Ian Bisset finds gold ring

A gold medieval ring found by a Stockton businessman has been confirmed to be treasure.Ian Bisset, 59, from Fairfield, was metal detecting on cultivated land […]

Minted! Dug up in a Midlands field, a £1m ‘perfect’ US threepenny bit from the time of Pilgrim Fathers

When it was minted 350 years ago, there wouldn’t have been much change from a slap-up meal and a few of pints of ale.Today the […]

Priceless Roman artefacts that escaped Boudicca found by archaeologists in Colchester

A PRICELESS collection of Roman bling, buried to protect it from Britain’s warrior queen Boudicca, has been found under a busy High Street. read more […]

7 Mysterious Treasures the World Is Still Looking For

Time to channel your inner Jack Sparrow. Buried treasures aren’t just pirate myths. While there are a few legendary pirate booties still allegedly floating around, […]

Where Is All the Buried Pirate Treasure?

As I tend to watch movies for a living, periodically I am faced with potential career choices that might be more lucrative for me. A […]

Jersey hoard experts aim for 500 coins a week over three years

Archaeologists are aiming to remove and clean up to 500 coins a week for the next three years from a hoard found encased in mud, […]

The world’s most hunted lost treasures

Stolen artefacts and shipwrecks filled with gold and silver, and a priceless gift stolen by the Nazis all top the list of dream finds for […]

French treasure hunter finds 50 pieces of jewellery on Mont Blanc from Air India crash 48 years ago

Climber Daniel Roche finds necklaces, bracelets, pendants from an Air India Boeing 707 that crashed in 1966 with 117 people on board, saying the gems […]

Treasure hunter facing jail time over golden find

A 23-year-old man who unearthed treasure worth up to €575,000 with a metal detector is facing embezzlement charges after trying to claim his windfall as […]

Builders in France charged with theft after finding treasure buried in garden

When a Normandy homeowner told the workmen extending her property to “let me know if you find any treasure”, she was only joking.The three builders, […]

Treasure hunters scramble to find £12,000 diamond dropped from space

A sleepy village in Lincolnshire has been thrust into the limelight after a £12,000 diamond fell from space into the parish.London jeweller 77 Diamonds attached […]

Coins discovered by father and son are latest from Mildenhall treasure hoard

A father and son found eight late Roman coins – which archaeologists believe came from a hoard near Mildenhall – an inquest has heard. read […]

Expensive golden hair tress more than 4,000 years old found by kids

Experts say the pre-Bronze Age ornament is one of the most significant recent archaeological finds ever discovered in the UK. Mini-archaeologists Joseph and Aidan Bell […]