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 […]
www.ancient-origins.net | By Mark Miller | November 6, 2015 In 74 BC the royal Han Dynasty clan of ancient China dethroned the emperor after just 27 days because of his lack of talent and for intolerably indulging in pleasures. But when he died, insane, five years later that didn’t stop them from giving him a […]
COINWORLD | By David Vagi, Special to Coin World | September 21, 2015 Cities still use alloy after switch to pure gold and silver The story of the world’s first coins, seemingly introduced in the mid-seventh century B.C. and made of “white gold” electrum, is well known. This alloy of gold and silver earned its […]
COINWORLD | By Colin Sallee | August 28, 2015 Fleet destroyed by hurricane 300 years ago continues to yield gold coins Coins, artifacts and other treasures are hardly a mainstay in the national American media. Most reporters have bigger fish to fry or simply don’t care. However, the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet, also known as […]
COINWORLD | By John Andrew, Coin World London Correspondent | January 23, 2015 5,251 coins discovered during metal detecting rally in countryside An effort at saving money almost cost one metal detectorist in the United Kingdom a huge fortune. However, despite the cost of gasoline to get there, his late-hour decision to attend a metal […]
BBC NEWS Middle East | August 25, 2015 The photos showing militants rigging the temple with explosives and a large explosion were circulated by the jihadist group’s supporters. Syrian officials and activists said on Sunday that it had been blown up. The UN’s cultural organisation said the deliberate destruction of Syria’s cultural heritage was a war […]
