In 1721, a pirate ambush sent a massive fortune to the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Did these archaeologists finally uncover ...

Two hefty Roman lead ingots (nicknamed “lead pigs”) have been declared treasure after being unearthed on grazing land in Ceredigion, west Wales. Dated to around AD 87 from their lettering, the pair ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed 1,000-year-old treasure in an unusual location: a construction site for a nuclear power plant. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) announced the ...

Archaeologists recently stumbled across a medieval pagan cult site in the Netherlands where they found a bounty of treasure. The findings were published in the journal Medieval Archaeology. According ...

The teamwork behind the discovery of the Melsonby Hoard has been recognised with a national award from one of the UK's ...

It was a real goldmine. Archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old tomb in Turkey that is potentially connected to King Midas — and contains rare artifacts and cremated remains of a high-ranking ...

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Researchers think the wreck was part of a flotilla that accompanied the Portuguese explorer's final voyage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

In 2010, the eccentric art dealer Forrest Fenn, who believed he was terminally ill, buried a stash of bronze treasure worth $2 million in the Rocky Mountains. At the same time, he published a memoir, ...

The Attingham Estate in England has long been a hotbed of archaeology, and the National Trust recently opened the site to amateur archaeologists. A public dig in September uncovered Roman artifacts, ...

Reports of archaeologists opening an untouched pyramid chamber overflowing with treasure have raced across social feeds, framed as a once‑in‑a‑lifetime discovery that rewrites Egyptian history. When I ...

Archaeologists with Wessex Archaeology were working through an excavation ahead of a habitat project when they came across a wooden tool that turned out to be one of the oldest and most complete ever ...