Watch Video BBC NEWS – London | June 29, 2016 The world’s largest uncut diamond has failed to sell at a London auction after bids did not reach the minimum reserve price. The Lesedi la Rona, almost the size of a tennis ball, was unearthed in Botswana in November. The rough diamond is 1,109 carats and believed […]
Numismatic News | Posted on June 9, 2016 by NMN | By Richard Giedroyc Denmark and Sweden may be leading the charge towards a cashless society, but Switzerland, that bastion of international banking, doesn’t see it that way. Not only are the Swiss sold on the idea they want to retain their coins and bank notes, […]
SMARTNEWS Keeping you current Smithsonian.com | June 28, 2016 | By Danny Lewis Bone, tissue, and feathers show the almost 100-million-year-old wings are remarkably similar to those on modern birds. Finding things trapped in amber is far from a rare occurrence: lizards, bugs, flowers and more are regularly found encased in hardened lumps of the tree […]
COIN WORLD | By Jeff Starck, Coin World | June 10, 2016 A small cache of silver coins recently found in Israel offers a fascinating look into life during the second century B.C. The hoard contains 16 silver shekels and half-shekels (tetradrachms and didrachms) that were minted in the city of Tyre and bear the images of […]
numismaticnews.net | Posted on May 16, 2016 by NMN A metal-detecting grandmother with a knack for finding gold will see her latest find going on the auction block July 17 to be sold by Elizabeth Cottam of Chris Rudd of Aylsham, England. The coin is an excessively rare ancient British gold quarter stater, probably minted by […]
BBC NEWS | By BBC Trending – What’s popular and why | May 10, 2016 What was your biggest achievement at the age of 15? Well, a Canadian teenager has outshone the experts after discovering a lost Mayan city. William Gadoury, from Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, made the discovery by comparing star charts with satellite images. The new city, […]
coinworld.com | By Paul Gilkes, Coin World | October 7, 2015 Amassing tons at a rate representing 90 percent of newly mined gold totals for 2015 The People’s Bank of China is amassing tons of gold in an apparent effort to become the gold trading center of the world, according to Mike Fuljenz, a gold dealer […]
BBC NEWS WORLD – Middle East | March 16, 2016 Watch Video Divers in Oman say they have discovered the remains of a ship which was part of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s fleet.
BBC NEWS – Science & Enviornment | By Helen Briggs – BBC New | March 16, 2016 The 300 million-year-old animal was found at an Illinois mine in 1958 by fossil collector Francis Tully. The “Tully monster” has been a puzzle to scientists ever since, and has been likened to worms and molluscs. US researchers say […]
arstechnica.com | By Annalee Newitz | March 14, 2016 Artifacts found buried beneath village farms are rewriting British history. Over the past month, our understanding of England’s distant past has been upended—not by trained archaeologists, but by two hobbyists with simple metal detectors. While prospecting in village farmlands, the two detectorists found clues that could change […]