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 […]
BBC NEWS – Magazine | By Hugh Schofield – BBC NEW, Paris | March 15, 2016 About 18,000 people in France are believed to have been defrauded in one of the biggest ever arts-market scams. They bought shares in rare manuscripts and letters to a value of nearly 1bn euros, before the company behind it […]
BBC NEWS – Middle East | March 14, 2016 An Israeli hiker has found a Roman coin that is almost 2,000 years old and only the second of its kind found in the world, authorities say. The coin, from AD107, bears the image of Emperor Augustus but was minted by Emperor Trajan. The only other example […]
BBC NEWS | February 17, 2016 A museum in eastern China is offering a reward to anyone who can decipher the inscriptions written on six gold coins in its collection. The centuries-old coins were first unearthed on a farm in the southern Hunan province in the 1960s, where they had been kept inside a small glazed […]
BBC NEWS WORLD-Europe | February 4, 2016 A teenage girl in Germany will be allowed to keep a bar of gold worth €16,000 ($18,000; £11,500) found in a lake after the owner could not be identified, police said. The 16-year-old found the 500g (1lb) gold bar at a depth of about 2m (6.5ft) while swimming […]
http://www.npr.org | December 5, 2015 More than 300 years after it sank during an attack in the Caribbean near Cartagena’s coast, a Spanish treasure ship has been found, says Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos. Santos announced the discovery of the legendary galleon Friday night, tweeting: “Great news: we found the Galeón San José!” The value […]
