Joseph Cook was searching the sand at Hammock Beach in St. Augustine, Florida, with his metal detector when he happened upon a beautiful platinum ring with a large diamond stone. He posted a video of the discovery on his social media and couldn't help but wonder.
It is said that Adolf Hitler ordered his henchmen to smuggle looted gold and art treasures out of Germany in submarines. Treasure hunter Roger Miklos has claimed to have discovered one in the past. But he died four years ago, and now other treasure hunters are trying to decipher his legacy.
A perfectly preserved baby mammoth, including soft tissue or fur, was discovered in the Yukon goldfields south of Dawson City in northwestern Canada. It is the first complete mammoth calf ever found in North America, and only the second in the world after the Siberian discovery in May 2007...
The remains of an eighteenth-century Spanish ship were discovered by construction workers. This happened thirteen years ago near the banks of the La Plata River in the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires, where the port used to be. The vessel was wrecked here 300 years ago.
Twenty thousand twenty-dollar coins were carried by the paddle-wheel steamer Republic, which left New York on October 18, 1865. Two days later, however, a storm hit the ship and its cargo went down. The treasure was not recovered by underwater archaeologists until 2003.
The University of Cambridge and the Danish Geo Genetics Center Lundbeck Foundation have jointly developed a brand new technique for analysing relationships through DNA. The study has now been used to identify the relationships of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull and his great-grandson Ernie Lapointe. The incredible story, which began with an interest in an unusual souvenir...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Historic Preservation Institute have jointly announced an agreement to return to the Czech Republic a unique Italian shield of incalculable value from the workshop of Girolamo di Tommaso da Treviso (1497 - 1544). Missing after the war, it was recently found in the armour and weapons galleries as part of the Carl Otto Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Museum Collection in Philadelphia, where it has been on display since 1976.
An extremely dramatic auction was held on August 27 at Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles. Guns of famous gunfighters of the Wild West went up for sale; revolvers and rifles that were involved in famous gunfights. The most expensive of these is the Colt .44 with which Sheriff Pat Garrett shot America's most famous outlaw, Billy the Kid. Due to the overwhelming interest of bidders from around the world, Garretts Colt set a new world record as the most expensive firearm ever sold at auction...
The Schmitt family from Florida made the discovery of a lifetime eight years ago. They've been treasure hunting for a long time, but none of the previous finds compare to the latest. They found gold coins and chains from shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean.
First he found a silver coin, then after a while a gold one. Zach Moore discovered another piece of substrate from the wreck of a Spanish galleon worth over two million crowns. He's working under the banner of Mel Fisher's Treasures.