ON AUGUST 25, 1965, A nine-foot-tall bronze statue of Christ was lowered into 25 feet of water off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Known
Government experts have confirmed the world’s largest single crystal of gold. It is worth as estimated $1.5m, and was found in a river in Venezuela.
A stunning collection of gems which lay forgotten in a bank vault for 30 years has been unearthed – and is set to sell for
In 1795, on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, three young men stumbled upon a round depression in the ground. They dug down 30 feet before stopping.
A French mountaineer was left stunned after finding a metal box that contained emeralds, rubies and sapphires worth hundreds of thousands of Euros whilst scaling
Twenty years ago, on 9 September 1993, a treasure was found in downtown Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany): More than 2,600 ancient Roman gold coins were unearthed
The largest gold nugget ever found in Alaska is named the Alaska Centennial Nugget. It weighs a whopping 294.10 troy ounces (9.14 Kilograms, 20.16 pound),
Gold in Western Australia was first identified in ore specimens from the Murchison lead and copper deposits after being assayed in Adelaide in 1848. During
There’s no question that for most people the single “must see” of the Egyptian museum in Cairo is room 3 on the upper floor, which
These 160 aureus coins were found below the floor of a Roman house in Corbridge in 1911 CE. They were stored in a bronze jug,