Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

We're not trying to scare you. People in San Antonio are finding treasures from the turn of the century – as in, the turn of the 20th century – underground. As KENS 5 learned, while these discoveries ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal ...

Metal detectorists and archaeologists unearthed over 400 of ancient British, Roman and African coins linked to a military conquest, photos show. Photo from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the ...

A metal detectorist found a 700-year-old coin linked to a young king during an excavation in Norway, an institute said and a photo shows. Google Street View September ...

Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

LONDON (AP) — Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another. Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said. In a ...

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

MAINE — A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a ...