Divers recovered hundreds of gold coins from an English wreck; newly uncovered London legal records finally reveal the ship’s name, cargo and doomed voyage. Thirty years after a glint of gold first caught a diver’s eye on the sands of Devon’s...

to have served as a ritual offering, while the other was likely placed in the deceased warrior’s mouth.©Abramzon 2015 The coins identified at the site—Lysimachus-type gold staters minted under Mithridates VI Eupator in the first century B.C.—depict the...

the fortune had been largely destroyed by agricultural activity, the base of the container remained intact, confirming the coins were originally stored as a single, deliberate deposit. Historical Insight into the Přemyslid Dynasty Initial assessments by...

treasure? Construction crews working on a cellar in Dendermonde, Belgium, stumbled upon a concealed hoard of gold bars and coins estimated at roughly €9 million, triggering a police inquiry into its provenance. The find occurred while the team was...

A 500-year-old shipwreck filled with gold coins has been unearthed in a Namibian diamond mine, revealing secrets of a vanished maritime trading world. In April 2008, miners scouring Namibia’s Atlantic coast for diamonds stumbled upon a historical...

uncovered a sprawling Celtic settlement that dates to roughly 2,200 years ago. The find includes hundreds of gold and silver coins, intricate jewelry, Baltic amber beads and clear signs of large‑scale craft production. Massive Celtic Hoard Unveiled...

Integration Metallic currency recovered from the site reinforces the picture of a thriving community. Numerous bronze coins bearing portraits of Byzantine emperors, Latin legends, and Christian symbols align with official minting practices of the fourth...

Archaeologists have recovered a 1,600-year-old Roman trading ship and its cargo of coins from an ancient port, uncovering a long-lost piece of history. A remarkable cache of ancient Roman treasures has been recovered from the seabed near the port of...

A newly discovered silver coin provides archaeologists a surprising breakthrough in a centuries‑old mystery. A silver eight‑reales coin uncovered beneath the stone foundation of an early colonial church has enabled researchers to pinpoint the exact...

in 1895, which contained approximately 1,700 items weighing nearly five pounds. The image shows a large pile of ancient coins covered in soil and corrosion. Credit: Lahti City Museums The collection includes thousands of coins, alongside a clasp, a...

settlement in Allonnes, western France. The restraints, found together with weapons, ritual items and a large hoard of coins, are considered exceptionally uncommon for the Late Iron Age and may indicate that the community participated in the slave...

intercepted it near Cartagena the following year, sinking the galleon along with an estimated 11 million gold and silver coins and a cache of emeralds destined for the Spanish throne. The San José galleon sank while carrying gold and jewels bound for...

to extract the first set of items from the site. The haul included a bronze cannon, two porcelain cups, and three gold coins, alongside various fragments of rope and sediment. Alhena Caicedo Fernández, director of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology...

in 2025 by a team from Arkeologerna, a division of the Swedish History Museum, the hoard includes intricate jewelry, coins of diverse international origin, and remarkably preserved textile fragments. The discovery was made within a larger settlement...

has revealed a treasure trove of artifacts dating back to the second century B.C., including hundreds of gold and silver coins, luxury ceramics, amber, and intricate jewelry. The team, led by the Museum of East Bohemia in Hradec Králové, discovered that...

through sand and timber, he recovered gold ingots, a 36‑ounce bar, dozens of gold pieces, and over two hundred silver coins, confirming the wreck’s late‑1500s origin. The most startling find emerged when a large wooden plank was shifted, revealing a...

40 tons of material, ranging from navigational instruments and weaponry to personal effects and thousands of gold and silver coins. Fascinating history. This is the Bom Jesus (shipwrecked 1533) near Oranjemund, frequently confused with the Eduard Bohlen...

dismissed by the site crew as loose change, the objects turned out to be a substantial collection of bullion bars, gold coins, and other precious items secreted away inside a brick-walled cellar. The discovery was made by a team of workers, including an...

An archaeologist’s quest to explain a remote Roman villa in Wales has led to the discovery of a previously unknown ancient fort hidden along a lost road. A series of archaeological excavations on a hillside in north Pembrokeshire may have bridged the...

Mystery Early coverage estimated the holding at 7,500 BTC, with the BBC reporting in November 2013 that the coins were already worth millions of pounds. Subsequent reports have generally cited a figure of 8,000 BTC. James Howell says his ex partner...