Ancient discoveries could pop up anywhere, sometimes even being found by mistake. Twelve-year-old Rowan Brannon from Bognor Regis, West Sussex, was walking his dog in Pagham with his mother in 2022 when they stumbled upon a gold bracelet. Unaware of the bracelet’s value or history, they took the gold cuff to a local finds liaison...
Since 2019, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) has conducted excavations in Bispevika, Oslo. Many ancient items have come out of excavations, but one recent find was particularly rare. The area, which has never been investigated by archaeologists before, brought to light a rare iron gauntlet from the Middle Ages, according to a...
A 22-year-old college student in Denmark uncovered an ancient find that turned out to be much larger than originally thought. This past spring, Gustav Bruunsgaard, an archaeology student from Aarhus University, took his metal detector to a field near Elsted, where previous excavations had uncovered objects dating back to the Viking Age. While Bruunsgaard was...
An ancient Greek city in modern-day western Turkey was the setting for the finding of gold coins dating back thousands of years. Researchers led by University of Michigan archaeologist Christopher Ratté discovered a hoard of gold coins in a small pot buried in the city of Notion. The team dated the ancient coins to the...
Archaeologists in Iowa have unearthed an ancient mastodon skull in pristine condition, which they hope will provide clues about human interaction with the ancient animal. The bones were excavated earlier this month from a creek bank in Wayne, taking nearly two weeks to complete. The eroding site was first brought to the attention of Office...
Excavations of dozens of tombs in the Nile Delta have unearthed a trove of ancient Egyptian artifacts, some going back nearly 2,500 years. The artifacts include bronze coins, pottery, gold pieces, and other jewelry dating back to Egypt’s Late and Ptolemaic periods, the country’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said. This image provided by Egypt’s...
Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments, an organization dedicated to the protection of ancient artifacts in Poland, revealed the discovery of various treasures, including silver coins, and among them was an Ancient Roman counterfeit cache. An organization referred to as the “Group of Explorers” stumbled upon coins, fibules, knives and various types of tools using metal...
