When a metal detector beeped on the Norwegian island of Senja, archaeologists suspected it may be Vikings. But they weren’t suspecting anything like this. Just 20 centimeters beneath the soil, they ...

Archaeologists from the Arctic University Museum of Norway have revealed a 10th-century Viking boat grave on the Norwegian ...

A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of ...

Armed with a metal detector, Michael Webb and his son Mike searched around an old Irish monastery in 1980 and stumbled across ...

The thrill of treasure hunting has captivated human imagination for centuries. The idea that hidden riches could be lying ...

Artifacts were illegally removed from one of the most historically rich sites in the City of Southport, the Fort Johnston ...

You may think the lone treasure-seeker scanning the sand with a metal detector at the beach seems a bit dorky—no offense to "detectorists," of course—but that only makes this revenge of the ...

My marriage has endured many years, but I have gone through no less than three wedding rings over the course of its duration ...

Now that recovery work is underway, the team has confirmed the site holds an unexpected scene: a Viking boat grave for a ...

In this special quarantine collaboration, we team up with The History Seekers, Modern Goonie, and Adventure Archaeology to search across three states for lost history. While metal detecting, we ...

FOUR items of possible treasure have been found by a teenage boy in a farmer’s field in Goring. Frankie Young, 16, from Wooburn Green, was metal detecting with his father, Daniel, 45, when they made ...

So, if you happen to find a shipwreck, do not disturb it or attempt to salvage anything from it—it’s illegal, unsafe, and ...