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A beautiful Bronze Age sword reveals the secrets of its manufacture

In 2023, a 3,400-year-old bronze sword was discovered in Germany, which immediately attracted attention for its preservation. The weapon is complete from pommel to tip, still retains its original shine in places and its blade is still sharpened. It has now been subjected to a detailed analysis which has revealed exceptionally valuable details about the process of its manufacture and a surprising decoration technique.

A history professor found an Iron Age treasure. Gold coins can fetch hundreds of thousands

A British history professor has discovered a rare Iron Age treasure while searching with a metal detector near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It is the largest set of Celtic gold coins ever found from the reign of King Dubnovellaun.

Detectorist finds gold royal jewel, museum buys it for nearly 100 million

An exceptional gold pendant from the Tudor period, the Tudor Heart, has been acquired for the British Museum's collections through a public collection. In the end, a full £3.5 million was raised, a tenth of which came from small donors - the public. The finder's fee will come to a handsome £49 million, with the same amount going to the landowner.

Are your eyes burning? Rub them with poop. The first real evidence that the Romans treated themselves with human excrement

Ancient authors such as Pliny the Elder or Galen describe the use of human and animal excrement in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, skin problems, eye diseases and other ailments. These recipes have long been considered rather exaggerated contemporary theories. But a recent study proves for the first time that excreta preparations were actually produced, stored and distributed for medicinal purposes in the Roman world.

Find of the century: detectorist on sick leave goes for a walk, discovers 1,500-year-old gold treasure

While testing a new metal detector, Erlend Bore discovered an extraordinary set of gold objects on the island of Rennesøy near Stavanger: nine bractate pendants, three rings and ten beads. Experts at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Stavanger immediately hailed it as the find of the century.

A unique hollow cross with a preserved relic was discovered in ancient Lystra

Archaeologists in central Turkey have discovered an extraordinary artefact: a sealed and still unopened bronze reliquary cross from the 9th-11th centuries with its original contents. The discovery was made during a systematic excavation of an early medieval church in the ancient city of Lystra in today's Konya province. To avoid damaging its contents, experts have so far only cautiously peered inside...

He bought a fake and passed it off as an archaeological find to enrich himself. Now he's been convicted

Jason Price was due to discover a beautiful 1st-4th century Roman horse brooch in a field near Leasingham in 2019. After being taken by archaeologists it was valued by the coroner, and Price later collected about £140,000 from the museum. In fact, it was a fake, which he even repeated four times.

Incredible coincidence, a detectorist found a Slavic cross that matches the form discovered in 1983

A small bronze pendant in the shape of a cross in a ring from the 10th century was found by a metal detector on the outskirts of West Havelland near Berlin. Its significance is quite extraordinary: it was cast in a mould that was discovered elsewhere 43 years ago. The unique combination of mould and product is quite extraordinary in archaeology.

Unprecedented Roman figurine of a feline beast and a barbarian with a severed head

A detectorist in Harlow, England, has discovered a Roman sculpture of a cat-like beast dating from the 1st to 2nd centuries. It was originally part of a harness. It's the only one of its kind ever discovered in Britain. It has now been declared a treasure.

While working in the field, they ploughed up a 17th century silver treasure

Farmers in Poland made an extraordinary discovery during last year's agricultural work. In their own field, they came across a collection of silver coins, small jewellery and other artefacts from the 17th century.

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