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 ...

Norwegians out roaming around with metal detectors have been having a bumper season after the snow melted this year. They’ve been finding everything from a bounty of Viking-era coins in farmers’ ...

A group of metal detectorists recently went on an epic summerlong adventure in the European countryside – and discovered a jackpot of ancient riches. Based in the central Polish city of Kalisz, the ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...

The gold coin unearthed by a metal detectorist in a field in Gundorf, northwest of Leipzig in Germany, may be small, but it belies a considerable history. The Saxon State Office of Archaeology, to ...

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

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

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.