A stunning 2,000-year-old gladiator helmet discovered in the ruins of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 BC offers a glimpse into the martial splendor of the Roman Empire.
A gladiator’s helmet left behind in the ruins of Pompeii is the centrepiece of an exhibition to be unveiled in Melbourne today. The 2,000-year-old bronze helmet is…
Bend down and tremblingly pick it up. It was the 63-year-old man’s final work when he discovered a 350-pound ancient vase containing 52,000 Roman coins in a field dating from the 3rd century AD.
For 1,800 years the story of the ‘lost British emperor’ who defied ancient Rome has been merely a footnote in history books. Carausius’s audacious seizure of power…
Revealing great history: “The strangely well-preserved 17th century ship found in the dark waters of the Baltic Sea surprised archaeologists”
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Not just a huge treasure: The beautiful and mysterious Fukang meteorite brings $2 million to the person who retrieves the 925-pound item
When it slammed into the surface of Earth, there was little sign of the beauty that lay inside. But cutting the Fukang meteorite open yielded a breathtaking…
Treasure of more than 4,000 ancient Roman bonds found by treasure hunters buried 1,700 years ago makes many people covet
A new collection of Roman coins has been discovered in a Swiss site A Swiss farmer discovered the valuable coins about a few months ago in Ueke,…
“Huge treasure weighing up to 10 tons of coins found inside a 2,000-year-old tomb” shocked archaeologists
Archaeologists have unearthed more than two million copper coins from an ancient complex of tombs in the Xinjian District of China. The 2,000-year-old money, which bears Chinese…
Retired prospector finds a giant 3.2kg gold nugget dubbed ‘The Propeller’ worth $110,000 after years of combing the same field with a metal detector
A mᴀssive gold nugget worth at least $110,000 has been uncovered by a prospector in remote Western Australia. The retired man, who doesn’t wish to be named…
Fisherman found giant 75lb pearl worth $100 million – but kept the two-foot long gem under his bed for TEN YEARS as a good luck charm.
This giant pearl could be the biggest ever found in the world and five times larger than the previous record – after being handed in by a…
Gold is in the house but doesn’t know it! The treasure was forgotten for decades in a basement in California
A California realtor has made an incredible discovery of one million pennies while cleaning out his late father-in-law’s former home in Los Angeles. John Reyes and his…
Meet the ‘Gold Dust Baby’, an extгаoгdіпагу discovery from Roman times containing an extгаoгdіпагу preservation history and fascinating postmortem anomalies.
This unique mummy, originally covered in glittering gold dust, harbors an exceptional preservation history and fascinating postmortem anomalies. Meet the ‘Gold Dust Infant,’ an extraordinary find from…