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Minelab celebrates 35 years

Minelab has come a long way since Bruce Candy started the company in 1984. Since its inception, it has always focused primarily on developing new technologies and advancing human knowledge in this area...

Missing treasures from the British Museum were sold by its curator

The FBI's US investigative agency has targeted the sale of hundreds of treasures from the British Museum to American buyers. The British Museum reported last year that at least 1,500 gems, jewels and other items from its collections had disappeared, been stolen or damaged. The museum claims a curator sold them, causing at least 3 million crowns worth of damage...

Aboriginal rituals have been practiced continuously since at least the end of the last ice age

Archaeologists from Monash University, in collaboration with the GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC), have discovered evidence of continuously practiced rituals dating back to the end of the last Ice Age, approximately 11,000 to 12,000 years ago, that are still known today.

The most valuable finds when searching with metal detectors

For many years now, detectorists around the world have been discovering treasures of national, European and even global significance. Often they are also interestingly "valued" financially. Particularly in England, Wales and Scotland, where finds are subject to the Crown and under certain conditions can bebe declared treasure and sold to museums, with the financial reward shared between the finder and the landowner. The following detector discoveries are among the most valuable ever...

The effect of salty seawater on metal detectors and working with the detector in seawater

Since it's the beginning of summer and many of you are about to take your metal detector on vacation, I think the followingthis article will come in handy and will help you understand how this environment is very specific to domestic waters.

Comparison table of coils for metal detectors Minelab Vanquish, X-Terra PRO, Elite, Equinox, Manticore

As we keep getting questions about the coil contability of new metal detector ranges Minelab, Adelaide have made this little table.

A 4,500-year-old tomb reveals the secrets of the last phase of the formation of the "European genome"

Analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old common tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes near the French city of Troyes has yielded new and surprising information: The final stage of European genome formation between migrants from the steppes and the natives is still present in many modern Europeans...

Traditional drawing of the search engine - find of the month June

Traditional draw for the Minelab Pro Find 20 competition from all LP searchers who took the time to nominate their top 5 finds of the month.

A 3,000-year-old bronze treasure was discovered in northern Bohemia

A treasure from the Middle Bronze Age was discovered near Budyně nad Ohří. A set of nineteen bronze objects consisting of tools, weapons and jewellery was discovered in a field on the outskirts of the town by a detectorist who handed the artefacts over to the Podřipské Museum in Roudnice nad Labem...

The most beautiful metal detector find of June 2024 - qualification

It's the first of the month and so the new qualifications for the month of June begin. Even though the fields are full of grain, we have been blessed with a lot of beautiful things. I'd like to say that I don't see any clear favourite, but it would be the same as always...