Category: News

Viking treasure haul unearthed in Scotland

BBC NEWS South Scotland | October 12, 2014 Watch Video A haul of Viking treasure has been unearthed from a field in south west Scotland by an amateur using a metal detector. Derek McLennan, a retired businessman from Ayrshire, made the find in Dumfriesshire in September. In total, more than 100 items were recovered, including

China: Shopping centre paves walk with gold bars

BBC NEWS From Elsewhere | September 22, 2014 The streets have been paved with gold at a shopping centre in China where a walkway has been built using real 24-carat bars. The walk at the indoor precinct in Yichang, in Hubei province, consists of 606 shiny yellow bricks, worth $32m (£20m) in total, the Chinanews.com

AOL.com | Huff Post Live | September 24, 2014 (Watch Video) One of the most sought after coins on the planet sold at auction for more than three-quarters of a million dollars. A Roman gold coin, minted more than 2,000 years ago, depicting the first and greatest emperor of the Roman Empire, Augustus Caesar, sold for

Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis

BBC News Europe | By Giorgos Christides | Amphipolis, Greece | September 22, 2014 The discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, has enthused Greeks, distracting them from a dire economic crisis. Who, they are asking, is buried within. In early August, a team

China: Shang or Zhou dynasty sword found in Jiangsu

BBC News From Elsewhere |  September 9, 2014 Eleven-year-old Yang Junxi says he touched the rusty weapon’s tip while washing his hands in the Laozhoulin River, in Gaoyou County, the state news agency Xinhua reports. After pulling it out he took it home, where it quickly became a sensation for curious locals, before the family

Minted! Dug up in a Midlands field, a £1m ‘perfect’ US threepenny bit from the time of the Pilgrim Fathers

Mail Online |By Paul Harris Reports For The Daily Mail | September 5, 2014 • John Stoner, 42, dug up the the rare coin in a field in Nottinghamshire • Father-of-two had only just started to search field when he picked up signal • It’s unknown how the coin ended up in the village of

‘Dreadnought’ dinosaur yields big bone haul

BBC News Science & Environment New fossils found in Argentina represent the most complete giant sauropod dinosaur ever discovered. Scientists say they have 70% of the key bones needed to fully describe the creature, Dreadnoughtus schrani. It means they can confidently estimate its great bulk – a beast that measured 26m from head to tail

Jersey experts start work on Celtic coin hoard

BBC News Jersey |  August 22, 2014 Watch Video Work to uncover the secrets of the world’s largest hoard of Celtic coins has started in Jersey. The team at the Jersey Museum in the capital, St Helier, will work in full view of the public. The hoard, thought to contain about 70,000 coins, was discovered

Chinese police confiscate $20.57 million in counterfeit notes in Guangdong province

coinworld.com | By Michele Orzano, Coin World | August 15, 2014   Area has been subject to a number of counterfeit-related raids this year Police in Guangdong province in China raided three sites producing fake Chinese bank notes and seized more than 127 million yuan ($20.57 million U.S.) in counterfeit notes, according to a story

Archaeologists Discover 5000 Year Old Egyptian Artifacts That Came From Space

collective-evolution.com | By Arjun Walia | January 7, 2014 This may be old news to some, but for many it wont be. A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in December of 2013 found that the earliest known (according to the study) iron artifacts that date back to circa 3200 BC, from two