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Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country.
The Winchester Hoard is a hoard of Iron Age gold found in a field in the Winchester area of Hampshire, England, in 2000, by a retired florist [1] [2] and amateur metal detectorist, Kevan Halls. It was declared treasure and valued at £350,000—the highest reward granted under the Treasure Act 1996 at that time.
After 14 years of searching, the metal detectorist stumbled on a first-of-its-kind artifact buried under a field in Wales. Metal detectorist ‘never expected’ to find ancient gold treasure ...
A close-up photo shows an intricate gold artifact found in the 1,200-year-old grave. El Caño Archaeological Park is in Coclé province and about 80 miles southwest of Panama City.
The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1] hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. [2] It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 [ 3 ] in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical student Jack Stuef.
On 31 August 2016, a 2000-year old human skeleton nicknamed Pamphilos was discovered at the shipwreck. [16] [17] The EUA excavation continued in September–October 2017 and in October 2019, and resulted in the recovery of a bronze arm from a sculpture, together with other fragments of bronze and marble statues.
4 – A 1,200-year-old tomb of the Gran Coclé culture containing the remains of an elite lord, as many as 31 sacrificial victims, and gold artifacts has been discovered in Panama’s El Caño Archaeological Park. [10] The top half of a statue of Ramesses II was found in an archaeological site at the ancient city of Hermopolis, now Al-Ashmunin ...
The treasure stash had 70 gold coins identified as U.S. dollars and rubles worth about $24,000, officials said. ... and unearths trove of ancient treasure. 5,000-year-old weapon unearthed by man ...