A unique, full-length mummy shroud, which is over 2,000 years old, has been discovered in a museum collection. The shroud, which dates to approximately 9 BC, was discovered in a brown paper parcel by curators looking through the National...
In Lahnau, Germany, an archeologist uncovered a roman bronze sculpture. They knew that the discovery was both rare and precious. The property owner received payments for the head of the bronze horse found at the bottom of his well...
A metal detectorist has uncovered Britain’s oldest hoard of gold coins dating back 2,173 years. Stephen Eldridge found the 12 Iron Age pieces while searching farmland in Buckinghamshire. Experts at the British Museum identified them...
Mike Smale’s metal detector began to beep maniacally, with the fisherman unearthing coin after coin AN AMATEUR historian has made a once-in-a-lifetime find of 2,000-year-old Roman silver coins worth up to £200,000. Mike Smale, 35,...
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In the realm of paleontology, the eminent Dr. Femke Holwerda sits alongside a living testament to the ancient seas—Prognathodon overtoni, a mosasaur that once prowled the oceanic depths during the late Cretaceous period. As she carefully...
Paul Coleman, 59, whose bank accounts are all in the red, almost stayed at home because he could barely afford to fill up his car to go on the dig A hard-up metal detector fan told today how he found an amazing £1million hoard of...
More than two dozen beautifully preserved bronze statues fashioned 2,000 years ago have been pulled from the mud of ancient thermal baths in Tuscany, Italy. These figurines are said to ‘rewrite history’ about the transition from...
A MYSTERIOUS temple has been discovered among the ruins of an ancient sunken city described as the “Egyptian Atlantis”. Heracleion off Egypt’s north coast slumped into the sea some 1,200 years ago and was lost for centuries until...
Two military planes laden with 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a Spanish warship that sank during a 1804 gunbattle landed in Spain today, ending a 200-year odyssey that took the treasure from an ocean floor to Florida...
After 37 years of searching, Syd Pearson has finally hit the jackpot when he struck it lucky at a Victorian gold fields. The 68-year-old garbage man from Maryborough was elated to discover the gigantic piece of 4.3kg gold...
A new breakthrough could enable us to tell what colour dinosaurs were based on their fossils. Researchers have pinpointed the oldest known example of beta-keratin – a common red-orange pigment – in a 130-million-year-old bird...
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This is the moment archaeologists lifted a 3,000-year-old statue of an Egyptian Pharaoh considered ‘one of the most important discoveries ever’ from a muddy ditch. Experts descended on the Souq al-Khamis district of the capital Cairo and...
Three members of the Israeli Caving Club found a pouch filled with silver The coins, bracelets and rings were hidden in a narrow niche in the cave The coins date back to when Alexander the Great ruled 2,300 years ago Archaeologists...
Workers laying pipes in a southern Spanish park have unearthed a 1,300lbs (600kg) trove of Roman coins in what culture officials say is a unique historic discovery. The Seville Archaeological Museum said the workers came across 19...
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Large ргedаtoгу dinosaurs discovered in Skåne Part of a jаw from one of the dinosaurs found in Norra Albert. The discovery is just over 200 million years old. Photograph: Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki Roughly 200-million-year-old footprints...
A Kentucky man discovered over 700 rare golden dollars buried in his farm in what experts have called the ‘Great Kentucky Hoard.’ The unidentified individual filmed himself digging up the loot- all minted between 1840 and 1863...
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Scraping at the dirt, earth thick under his fingernails, amateur archeologist Basil Brown came across a section of hard earth. After further excavations, he found other patches stained with rust, and iron nails and rivets spread intermittently...