Local resident spots oddity in northern Denmark woods, leading researchers to an untouched centuries‑old gold deposit. Six solid gold bracelets dating back more than 1,000 years have been discovered near Rold in northern Denmark, marking one of the...

Scotland’s 2014 Galloway Hoard unearthed over 100 Viking‑age silver, gold, Christian relics and a rare Iranian‑linked vessel. Dating to around A.D. 900, the assemblage was first classified as a Viking hoard because of its abundant silver items. It...

Gold coins unearthed at an ancient Turkish site spark a mystery as researchers investigate their centuries‑old origins. A team of archaeologists has uncovered a concealed cache of Persian gold coins beneath the ancient settlement of Notion, located on...

Renovation crews in Belgium stumble upon a massive hidden stash of gold—who rightfully owns the treasure? Construction crews working on a cellar in Dendermonde, Belgium, stumbled upon a concealed hoard of gold bars and coins estimated at roughly €9...

Divers find a millennium‑old Byzantine shipwreck treasure of gold in the Mediterranean, revealing a hidden ancient hoard. A Byzantine merchant vessel discovered off Croatia’s island of Mljet has yielded the most extensive assemblage of gold artefacts...

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...

Construction workers at a former brewery have uncovered a hidden fortune, discovering a long-lost stash of valuables sealed behind an old wall. A routine construction project at a former brewery in the Belgian city of Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde took an...

Explore the Nebra Sky Disk, an Early Bronze Age artifact merging celestial symbols and ancient belief imagery, a top‑studied archaeological treasure. Two looters equipped with a metal detector and a pickaxe uncovered a green‑patinated bronze disk on...

The 22,000‑piece Bactrian Hoard discovered in Afghanistan in 1978 has vanished from public view again after years of war, secrecy and preservation. Excavations at Tillya Tepe – literally “Hill of Gold” in northern Afghanistan – turned up a trove that...

A routine construction unearthed a hidden treasure beneath an ancient statue, prompting archaeologists to probe a centuries‑old mystery. During routine drainage work at a historic temple in Thailand, workers stumbled upon a concealed cache of ancient...

A 62‑acre site near Hradec Králové produced 13,000 bags of artifacts but no graves, walls or clear reason for its disappearance. While surveying a new highway route in the Bohemia region of the Czech Republic, construction workers near Hradec Králové...

Decades after vanishing underground before World War II, a long-lost hoard of rare coins has finally been unearthed. Discover the story of the discovery. For decades, one of the world’s most significant private numismatic troves remained entirely...

A routine highway survey in the Czech Republic has uncovered a massive cache of ancient gold, revealing hidden treasures untouched for over 2,000 years. Archaeologists surveying a site for the planned D35 motorway in the Czech Republic have uncovered...

A routine highway survey in the Czech Republic has uncovered a stunning collection of ancient gold artifacts hidden for over 2,000 years. A routine archaeological survey ahead of highway construction in the Czech Republic has evolved into a historic...

A five-year study will examine 250 Dead Sea Scroll fragments, but the elusive Copper Scroll and its treasure sites lie outside its scope. The European Research Council has allocated €2.5 million to Professor Mladen Popović of the University of...