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Image shows four gold earrings, two gold strips and thirty-nine silver pennies, undated photo. Dutch historian Lorenzo Ruijter, 27, found a unique 1,000-year-old medieval golden treasure in Hoogwoud, North Holland province, the Netherlands. (Archeology West-Friesland, Fleur Schinning/Newsflash)

Historian Finds Unique 1,000-Year-Old Mediaeval Gold Treasure Using Metal Detector

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:March 21, 2023

A 27-year-old historian has found a unique 1,000-year-old mediaeval gold treasure using a metal detector. One of the pieces is said to feature a depiction of Jesus Christ and the…

Picture shows the fragments of the meteorite that fell on the evening of Valentine's Day in the northern area of Matera, Italy, undated. It fell onto a balcony. (PRISMA, INAF/Newsflash)

Astronomers Hail Priceless Find Of Uncontaminated Meteorite That Landed On Balcony

Post author:Michael Leidig
Post published:February 25, 2023

Astronomers scouring the countryside in southern Italy after reports that an asteroid was big enough to hit the Earth were amazed when they got a call from two brothers after…

Image shows the late Celtic jewellery and coins, undated photo. They were discovered in the town of Neumarkt am Wallersee, in Salzburg, Austria. (Salzburg Museum/Newsflash)

Priceless Hoard Of Ancient Gold And Silver Treasure Unearthed

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:January 23, 2023

A priceless hoard of ancient Celtic gold, silver jewellery and coins has gone on show in Austria. The sensational find could have been buried by its high-status owner either because…

Photo shows a jewellery of the Queen Ahhotep, which was displayed at the Egyptian Museum of Liberation in Cairo, Egypt, undated photo. Sabah Abdel Razek, director general of the museum, explained that this was the first time that these treasures were being displayed after having been in storage. (@tourismandantiq/Newsflash)

Egypt Returns Priceless Coins Looted From Ancient Civilisations

Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
Post published:December 23, 2022

Egypt has returned nearly 200 ancient coins to their modern homelands after they were seized by officials being trafficked into the country. Envoys from Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and China…

Picture shows one of the broken artefacts, undated. Three cultural relics in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, were damaged. (National Palace Museum/AsiaWire)

Taiwan Museum Denies It Tried To Cover Up Breaking Of Ming And Qing Dynasty Objects

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:November 17, 2022

Butter-fingered museum worker drops and breaks a priceless China plate by opening a box the wrong way. The video was released as the director of Taipei’s National Palace Museum faces…

One of the items recovered by Mexican authorities in an undated photo. They were given by the US authorities. (INAH/Newsflash)

Mexico Recovers Hundreds Of Priceless Treasures From USA

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:August 12, 2022

Mexico has recovered more than 400 archaeological treasures dating back hundreds of years after they were seized in the US. The 428 artefacts include arrowheads, spear tips and knives plus…

Moment of the drug trafficking search in a house where the archaeological items were found in Guadassuar, Valencia, Spain, July 2022. (Newsflash)

Cops Searching For Drugs Find Fortune In Ancient Pots

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:July 29, 2022

Police officers searching a home for drugs discovered more than a thousand ancient treasures dating back to the 12th and 18th centuries, with some even dating back to the Roman…

The coins which were made during the reign of Constantine the Great (AD 306-337) show portraits of the emperor and his relatives in the front. (Rahel C. Ackermann, Inventar der Fundmunzen Schweiz (IFS)/Newsflash)

Treasure Trove Of 1,200 Ancient Roman Coins Found By Amateur Archaeologist May Have Been Sacrifice To The Gods

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:May 4, 2022

An amateur archaeologist has found this huge treasure trove of over 1,200 priceless, ancient Roman coins dating back to the 4th Century AD and the reign of Emperor Constantine the…

Jerusalem District detectives seized Hasmonean coins during a search of the home of a man. (Israel Police/Newsflash)

Israeli Detectives Find And Seize Priceless Haul Of Ancient Artefacts From Jerusalem Home

Post author:William McGee
Post published:December 14, 2021

Cops in Israel have found and seized a haul of valuable archaeological pieces from a home in East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem District detectives found the goods while conducting a search…

The National Police of Spain recovers an Iberian sword that was sold on Internet. (Newsflash)

Priceless Sword From Pre-Roman Iberia Recovered By Cops, Who Arrest Person Trying To Flog It Online

Post author:William McGee
Post published:December 1, 2021

Cops have recovered a unique pre-Roman sword of great historical value that had been looted and was being sold online in southern Spain. The piece is a falcata, a type…