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Extremely rare golden medieval seal declared a treasure

Last June, a metal detector near King's Lynn found a unique medieval seal with an engraving of an elephant carrying a "war tower" on its back. It is only the third golden seal that the British PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) has ever recorded and at the same time the first with an depicted elephant ...

Scientists publish the principle of the so-called "Mechanism of Antikythera" - the world's first computer

Researchers at the University of London have made a digital model of the 2,150-year-old mechanical device Antikythera, the world's oldest known computer. The article includes breathtaking images and a detailed description of the working principle of the machine, which predicted with perfect accuracy the movements of the sun, moon and all five planets known to antiquity.

A former police officer discovered 2,150-year-old silver coins worth over half a million crowns

A treasure of 68 silver coins from 158-150 BC was found near the Romanian village of Radomiresti. With the help of a metal detector, a retired police officer, now an amateur detector and a collaborator of the district museum, discovered them on March 13. According to experts, the finder will be rewarded for an exemplary procedure.

In Hungary, they found 6,000-year-old gold objects and a unique kiln copper "scepter" made of Eneolithic

Over a dozen gold objects were discovered in three graves during rescue research at the Bükkábrány surface coal mine in northeastern Hungary. The 6,000-year-old artifacts are a wonderful example of the beginnings of goldsmithing in Europe. The oldest known gold jewelry found in Varna, Bulgaria, are only 200 years older ...

In Denmark, they found a very rare 3,000-year-old ceremonial sword in perfect condition

Archaeologists have found a unique ceremonial sword from the Bronze Age in the village of Håre on the Danish island of Funen. It is in perfect condition, from the bronze blade to the wooden handle. Even plant fibers from the material in which the sword was originally wrapped have been preserved. The first information speaks about the origin of the material from Central Europe.

New findings about the burial ground from the time of the migration of peoples in Sendražice

In 2019, archaeologists discovered a unique 5th-century female tomb with rich equipment in Sendražice near Hradec Králové. It is one of a total of six tombs found here from the early period of migration. Five of them were looted, but the intact log cabin grave contained an amazing collection of artifacts of a high-ranking woman. This is an unprecedented finding in the Czech Republic.

The detectorist found a unique and perfectly preserved spearhead from the Bronze Age

A spear with preserved traces of a wooden part from the late Bronze Age was found on the island of Jersey. It was dated to the 11th century BC; is the only complete and at the same time the largest undamaged spear ever found in the Channel Islands.

Retiree finds 1,000-year-old Viking jewellery with metal detector

A stunning set of gold and silver Viking jewellery from around 950 AD was discovered on the Isle of Man late last year. It was found by retired police officer Kath Giles using a metal detector on farmland in the north of the island.

A shocking message from the past: children's identification stamps in the Sobibor extermination camp

Excavations at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have revealed four identification marks of murdered Jewish children. All came from Amsterdam, which was part of the targeted extermination of Dutch Jews in the spring and summer of 1943. In this camp alone, more than a quarter of a million people, thousands of young children, including infants, were cruelly murdered in just 16 months.

2,000-year-old hoard of silver coins found on the bank of a stream

In September last year, archaeologists found 651 silver coins from the Roman period in the ancient Greek city of Aizanoi in Kütahya province in western Turkey. According to experts, this is a unique collection of all the rulers of the late Roman Republic, the so-called "coin album" of the rulers...

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