A painting found in Pompeii depicting eggs, bronze dishes and two small birds hung on a wall Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On the Spanish island of Mallorca, a researcher has discovered a ...
00:00, Mon, Dec 7, 2015 Updated: 19:35, Mon, Dec 7, 2015 Metal detecting enthusiasts Andy Aartsen and James Petts are locked in a dispute over who found 1,600 pieces of silver in a remote field. An ...
A Roman coin found by a metal detectorist 30 years ago has been revealed to be 2,000 years old and worth £10,000. Tom Thomas, 62, kept the coin as part of an amateur collection until he was persuaded ...
An amateur metal detectorist unearthed a massive Roman-era hoard buried almost 2,000 years ago. The hobbyist set out with his metal detector of choice, which he described as “average and neither cheap ...
It is the size of a fingernail with battered edges to match. But this silver coin, discovered in a field, could be worth up to £80,000 if proved to be a genuine Roman antique. Colin Popplewell, 58, ...
A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...
A rare 24-carat gold coin almost 2,000 years old has been discovered by an amateur metal detectorist in a field in Kent, England, near the site of an ancient Roman road. Now it could sell for as much ...
WORCESTERSHIRE, England (WKRC) - A man discovered a cache of over 1,000 coins from nearly 2,000 years ago by using nothing more than a metal detector. According to a release from Museums ...
What may have been a Roman soldier's monthly paycheck has emerged from under the ground, officials announced this month. British officials recently unveiled the discovery of a 1,900-year-old Roman ...
Deep-sea divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites, working with Sicily’s Superintendency of the Sea, ...
Archaeologists and physicists are at loggerheads over ancient Roman lead—a substance highly prized by both camps for sharply diverging reasons. Very old lead is pure, dense and much less radioactive ...