Category: Treasures
Captain Kidd’s pirate treasure
BBC have announced that underwater archaeologists have discovered a heavy silver ingot off the coast of Madagascar. It is presumably a treasure taken by the ... Read More
Luck or failure. Treasures?
For many years, a relic hunter armed with a metal detector wandered in forest near Ellwangen (Baden-Württemberg) in search of WWII relics. One one of ... Read More
Treasure of times of king Harald I
13-year-old schoolboy Luka Malashnichenko and his adult search partner Rene Schön, members of a local amateur archaeology group, recently made an amazing find on the ... Read More
Full box of rare bayonets. Amazing treasures at the end of 2019!
"All my life I did not believe in all these stories of diggers about boxes with Nagant and TT pistols until this story happened to ... Read More
The Roman Hoxne Hoard
In 1992, British archaeologists discovered the largest cache of silver and gold from the late Roman Empire, which has been named The Roman Hoxne Hoard. ... Read More
The Mikhalkovsky treasure
In the summer of 1876, two sisters Ekaterina and Nastya Danilchuk, as per usual, drove their cattle to a pasture near the village of Mikhalkov, ... Read More
ВВС: Israeli divers found a treasure of gold coins
According to this BBC article: Israeli scuba divers exploring the bay of Caesarea happened upon a cache of what they thought were toy coins, but ... Read More
The mystery of two wedding rings
On April 17th we were at an excavation site when it suddenly started snowing. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwXqdnGorna/ We'd been researching a place where a rich man’s house ... Read More
Relic hunting: Hobby or lifestyle?
Metal detecting can be compared to fishing. More often than not, we spend hours looking, only to find recent trash and other useless finds. But ... Read More
World War II treasure found in London
London is full of old buildings that are legally protected. Owners have to spend a lot of time and money modernizing buildings that never had ... Read More