949-251-1366Forgotten fossil found to be new species of ichthyosaur
BBC NEWS SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT | By Victoria Gill – Science reporter, BBC News | February 18, 2015 Watch Video A fossil stored in a Doncaster museum for 30 years and thought to be a plaster copy has turned out to be a new species of ancient reptile. A young palaeontologist working with the University of Manchester found
Read moreIsrael’s largest-ever gold hoard discovery reported at ancient harbor
CoinWorld.com | By Joe O’Donnell, Coin World | February 17, 2015 Nearly 2,000 coins from the 11th century found by a diving club The largest hoard of gold coins ever discovered in Israel was found in recent weeks on the seabed in the ancient harbor in Caesarea National Park by a group of divers from a
Read moreTime capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams is opened
THE WASHINGTON POST | By Lindsey Bever | January 7, 2015 Watch Video It was a midnight ride in 1775 that earned Paul Revere his place in American history. After riding the countryside on horseback warning of a British invasion, the silversmith cast cannons from iron, made gunpowder and printed Massachusetts’s first currency during the Revolutionary War.
Read moreBeverly Hills coin dealer buys 1792 Birch penny for $2.5 million
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | January 12, 2015 A penny saved for 200 years can earn $2.5 million. Beverly Hills rare coin dealer Kevin Lipton purchased a rare coin he said is an important piece of American history. He told the Daily News he bought the 1792 Birch Cent penny for $2,585,000 at auction Thursday. (Image
Read moreQueen Khentakawess III’s tomb found in Egypt
BBC NEWS – AFRICA | January 5, 2015 Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown queen, Egyptian officials say. The tomb was found in Abu-Sir, south-west of Cairo, and is thought to belong to the wife or mother of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago. Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said that
Read moreThe story of the ‘most complicated’ watch in the world
BBC NEWS MAGAZINE MONITER (Magazine Monitor – A collection of cultural artefacts) |November 11, 2014 The most complicated handmade watch, the Henry Graves Supercomplication, has been sold at auction for 20.6m Swiss francs (£13.4m), writes Luke Jones. A “complication” is a technical term referring to any feature on a watch which is in addition to simply
Read moreSwap gold for silver?
numismaticnews.net | By Pat Heller | November 10, 2014 There have been several opportunities since the 1979-1980 gold and silver boom where the gold/silver ratio was so distorted that it was possible to trade out of one metal into the other to realize a possible gain when the ratio turned around. Since the end of
Read moreScientists Finally Crack The Code Of The Ancient ‘Phaistos Disk’
www.huffingtonpost.com | By Jacqueline Howard | October 28, 2014 Scientists have been trying to decipher the mysterious “Phaistos Disk” ever since the 4,000-year-old clay disk was discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete. But no one seems to have been able to translate the mysterious language inscribed on the disk, which dates back
Read moreHuge gold nugget going up for sale in California
www.aol.com | October 22, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California’s historic Gold Country is going up for sale. Weighing in at 6.07 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the
Read moreThe oil man who caused a silver craze – and bust
www.marketplace.org | by Sarah Gardner Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Listen to Commentary When the Hunt brothers bought up silver in 1979, a craze – and then a financial debacle – resulted. Speculators rushed in, families sold their silverware or in some cases, had it stolen. Nelson Bunker Hunt, the billionaire oil tycoon who once tried
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