The largest hoard of gold coins from the British Iron Age, consisting of 933 pre-Roman coins, has been discovered in Essex.

The Danish town of Jelling is known for a few things, including being the home of the evocatively-named 10th century ruler Gorm the Old. For historians and archaeologists, it’s even more significant.

Treasure hunter Travis Nichols pulled a bucket-list find from the sand on a popular south shore beach last week, a 1782 ...

Redditors recently revealed their best finds while metal detecting, from a full safe with passports and money to numerous pieces of jewelry. The viral Reddit post, titled, "People who metal detect on ...

Yankee Girl Finds Confederate Relics Metal Detecting is the hunt for buried treasure; we take one of our History Seekers genealogy researchers to find her first relics from 1864. This was from a time ...

Just like their wedding day, many people dream of the perfect proposal—and the jewelry that comes with it. So, losing your engagement ring, especially after years of marriage to the one you love, can ...

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the ...

As Christina McCree turns the pages of a book that documents her successful metal detecting searches over the years, she can’t help but smile. Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each ...

During a 2022 archaeological survey in July 2022 at nearly century-old concrete tent pads on South Post at Fort McCoy, the installation's archaeological team found dozens and dozens of artifacts ...

(RNS) — Archaeologists hope to capitalize on a local fad for metal detecting to examine pilgrimage and personal piety in areas where the written record is thin. (RNS) — Much has been written about ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal ...