It’s one of the biggest hoards of its kind ever found in Germany, worth roughly six years of a Roman soldier’s savings.

A metal detectorist has uncovered the largest hoard of Viking Age silver ever found in Finland, about 95 miles (150 ...

The massive silver discovery contains more than twice as many coins as Finland’s previous record-holding Viking Age hoard — and no one knows who buried it ...

A metal detecting trip heads to Florida for an event outside Daytona. Detectorists use equipment including a Garrett Apex to search a field with buried silver coins.

A Finnish metal detectorist has uncovered what is believed to be the country's largest known Viking Age silver coin hoard after finding thousands of ancient coins near the village centre of Sysmä.

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 ...

Treasure hunter with a metal detector stumbles on a stash of silver coins in Romania The more than 1,000 silver coins date back to the Roman empire and have turned bluish-green with age. The coins are ...

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it.

Adam Staples knew he'd found something when his metal detector let out a beep. Soon "it was just 'beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,'" he recalls. In a farmer's field in southwest England, Staples and ...

Raoul Vlad Suta was using his metal detector in Romania when he discovered nearly 5,000 coins dating to the Middle Ages, according to a Facebook post. Screengrab from Facebook Raoul Vlad Suta is an ...

A group of hobby metal detectorists discovered a hoard of Viking silver near the ruins of the Viking castle Fyrkat, in Hobro, North Denmark. The trove contained over 300 items, including Danish, ...