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Good Friday

Since we've had several searchers here the last couple of days going on a search for Bigfoot treasures, I have to write a little something about it. Since it seems most people only know half the truth...

Pirate treasure off the coast of Ecuador - a treasure that gives hope

It is one thing to go out into a field with a detector and hope for a nice find, it is quite another to hunt for a specific historical treasure. I have described and dissected two famous Nazi treasures here already, and in both cases I was forced to conclude that the treasure was most likely not there, or that it had already been selected. This is unfortunately the case with the vast majority of all treasures that are spoken or written about. Fortunately, not all...

Detectorist discovers unique depot of broad bronze axes

A 3,500-year-old treasure trove of five rare Bronze Age axes has been discovered in the Starogard forest area of Kociewie, Poland. The collection is the first of its kind in Poland, surpassing previous individual finds in its extent and preservation.

Success of the Polish Detectorist Association: the medieval treasure of the Crusader denarii

A small but historically significant hoard of medieval coins has been discovered just 15 cm deep in the woods on a hillside outside the town of Iława in northern Poland. The discovery was made by the town's detector club when its members, during a joint club thirteen complete silver coins and their fragments, mostly cross denarii.

The mystery of Egyptian treasures on the grounds of a Scottish school

In 1952, a student at the private Dalhousie School at Melville House was punished with menial garden work. While hoeing a flower bed, he came across what looked like a potato. But instead of a tasty eggplant-like tuber, he discovered a 4,000-year-old Egyptian masterpiece. It was the first artifact of 18 others discovered by various schoolchildren over the next 30 years.

They went "to war" in Poland, discovered a treasure trove of gold coins

Three detectorists searched for World War II remains in a forest near Szczecin in northwestern Poland. They were expecting some buttons, discarded items, maybe badges and maybe a few coins. But instead they came across an unprecedented hoard of American and Russian gold coins from the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Detectorist finds 3,000-year-old huge Bronze Age treasure in the Alps

A treasure dating back to the 12th to 11th century BC was discovered at the site of a Roman battle in the Oberhalbstein Alps with the help of a metal detector. It contains over 80 bronze objects weighing a total of 20 kg. It is the largest and most important Bronze Age treasure ever found in the canton of Graubünden...

Jewish Treasure from World War II

Last week, a Jewish treasure from the Second World War was uncovered during construction work in Polocka Street in Łódź. In the last six months, this is the second similar set of objects stored in fear of the Nazis, quite possibly collected by several families together before being transported to a concentration camp.

Royal jewels from Mšece and Řevničov

Hi, hello to all history buffs and time travelers.

Detectorist discovers 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman silver coins

An amateur prospector with a metal detector stumbled upon a unique coin hoard near the town of Padea in the Romanian district of Dolj, about 150 km west of Bucharest on the Romanian-Bulgarian border. The hoard contained 1,168 Roman silver coins dating from the third century, when the area was wracked by heavy fighting.

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