A beach treasure hunt compares two gold finding methods: sifting through sand and using a metal detector. The experiment ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has turned up what experts are calling one of the greatest Roman treasure hoards found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A skull engraving can be seen on the gold ring [Noonans] A metal detectorist has unearthed a 17th Century gold ring with a memento ...

There's something undeniably thrilling about the hunt for hidden treasures beneath our feet. From coins with centuries of history to curious everyday relics lost to time, metal detecting captures the ...

A few days before Christmas several years ago, David Moss and Tom Taylor headed out with the metal detectors to do some exploring in Wales. The duo was in a field in Caerhun Community, Conwy near a ...

The 1,000-year-old cahce contained more than 200 artifacts. In Germany, a metal detectorist has unearthed a 1,000-year-old Viking hoard which contains more than 200 artifacts, including what may be ...

A metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, has unearthed a gold Bronze Age dress fastener, according to a recent report from the British Museum. Jonathan Needham, a 54-year-old retired tree ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tokugawa government began minting Tenpō Tsūhō coins in 1835. A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while ...