Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

Sætre and Sørlie did everything correctly when they first found 19 silver coins in early April, earning praise from the ...

Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

Treasure hunting is not unlike finding a stud in your walls. Rather than a stud finder, you just need a metal detector. Whereas finding treasure once meant locating an “X” on an ancient map, today’s ...

Years after hearing rumors of a gold vein lost beneath a remote Alabama bridge, we finally investigate it ourselves. The site is dangerous, eerie, and full of untold secrets. With metal detectors in ...

A keen metal detectorist has hit the jackpot of an ancient Roman coin hoard - 20 years after he first took up his hobby. Steve Dean, along with friends Glenn Church and Ed Denovan, discovered the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A metal detectorist scouring an Australian campsite used during the 1851 gold rush discovered a mid-19 th century Japanese coin.

It's now a year since a metal detectorist's celebration after he discovered a hoard of Elizabethan coins and other treasure ...

Guardia Civil in Andalucia now treat metal detector use on beaches and riverbanks as a serious offence under heritage laws and arrest those they find doing it ...

We're not trying to scare you. People in San Antonio are finding treasures from the turn of the century – as in, the turn of the 20th century – underground. As KENS 5 learned, while these discoveries ...