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Archaeologists have reportedly discovered two mass graves of slaughtered Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, unearthing a tragic massacre from the Civil War-era. Researchers used remote sensing ...
Coin collectors rejoiced after gold was struck in a Kentucky cornfield last month, literally. More than 800 gold Civil War-era coins were discovered after being buried more than 150 years ago.
Trove of 700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins Discovered in Kentucky An unidentified man found the cache, which may have been buried ahead of a Confederate invasion, in a cornfield earlier this year ...
Treasure hunter Dennis Parada, owner of Finders Keepers, talks about the FBI’s 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold in an interview at his office in Clearfield, Penn., Jan. 6, 2023.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals from Greece's civil war era — have been dug up in a park in a suburb near the northern ...
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.
Dubbed the Saddle Ridge Find, it is the single largest discovery of Civil War–era gold coins to date, consisting mostly of $20 gold pieces dated between 1847 and 1894. There were 1,427 coins in ...
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...
A 1936 map shows the location of a possible Civil War mass grave (circled in yellow). (Image credit: Jerry Miller) More than a century later, local historian and retired State Rep. Jerry Miller ...
Construction work near one of Greece's most notorious prisons in Thessaloniki has unearthed the remains of dozens of people executed during the Greek Civil War era, relatives and officials said ...
Treasure hunter Dennis Parada, owner of Finders Keepers, talks about the FBI's 2018 dig for Civil War-era gold in an interview at his office in Clearfield, Penn., Jan. 6, 2023.