BBC NEWS Science & Environment | March 23, 2015 US researchers are investigating ways to extract the gold and precious metals from human faeces. The group identified gold in waste from American sewage treatment plants at levels which if found in rock could be worth mining. Details were outlined at the 249th national meeting of the American […]
BBC NEWS ASIA | March 9, 2015 Bangladesh has expelled a North Korea diplomat caught trying to smuggle 27kg (59lb) of gold into the country. Son Young-nam, the first secretary of North Korea’s Dhaka embassy, was stopped as he arrived in Bangladesh via Singapore on Friday. He was released and has not been charged, according to diplomatic […]
News.Discovery.com | By Rossella Lorenzi | March 9, 2015 See Photo Gallery A rare cache of jewelry and silver coins, minted during the reign of Alexander the Great, has been discovered in a stalactite filled cave in northern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday. The 2,300-year-old treasure was found by three members of […]
BBC NEWS Middle East | March 6, 2015 Archaeologists and officials have expressed outrage about the bulldozing of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by Islamic State militants in Iraq. IS began demolishing the site, which was founded in the 13th Century BC, on Thursday, according to Iraqi officials. The head of the UN’s cultural agency condemned […]
COIN WORLD | By Jeff Starck, Coin World | February 23, 2015 See more images The Mint of Poland has developed new minting technology to strike spherical coins. The first coin with this technology shows a 1638 world map by Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu and highlights the Seven New Wonders of the World New spherical coin […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Siberian Times | By Kate Baklitskaya | February 2, 2015 As police say lama found in lotus positon was destined for sale on black market, there are claims it was one step away from becoming a Buddha. A mummified monk found in the lotus position in Mongolia is ‘not dead’ and is instead one stage away […]
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. […]
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 […]
