Photos of the seabed confirm that the San José shipwreck is the Spanish galleon from 1708 with sunken treasure valued at $17 ...

A Byzantine treasure hoard of gold coins and jewels, hidden since the 7th century during times of war, has been found in ...

A group of metal detectorists uncovered an extraordinary hoard of 2,584 ancient coins in a Somerset field valued at £4.3million. The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now ...

Finding treasures in a real-life setting might only sound like one of Captain Hook's pirate and burglary campaigns from ...

Four gold coins from the “Great Kentucky Hoard,” a multi-million-dollar, 800-plus coin collection that Jeff Garrett helped ...

In January 2019, Adam Staples and his then-partner Lisa Grace traveled to Chew Valley in Somerset, the U.K., to help a friend test their new metal detector. Walking across an unassuming field, it didn ...

Archaeologists in Japan have unearthed a massive stash of about 100,000 coins in Maebashi, a city about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Tokyo. The hoard was found during excavations ahead of ...

What starts as a simple patch of mixed signals—two coins with holes, American buttons, and the rotten remains of a German ...

A group of archaeologists has uncovered a large trove of coins in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains in south-central Poland. The gold and silver relics date to the 17th and 18th centuries, and more ...

A cache of old coins found in a Welsh field were determined to be about 2,000 years old, according to the experts who analyzed them and believe the treasure was buried during the Roman Empire. David ...

A preventive archaeological intervention, carried out in connection with the expansion of a private residence in the town of Senon (Lorraine, northeastern France), has unearthed exceptionally ...