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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...

A unique Anglo-Saxon burial site has been found beneath a Cambridge student hall of residence

An early medieval cemetery with more than 60 graves and 700 preserved artefacts from the period between 400 and 650 AD has been discovered beneath a recently demolished university student dormitory. Iron Age structures and traces of Roman earthworks have also been identified on the site.

Watched chasing birds and found a treasure trove of Celtic gold staters for a record sum

It's like The Detectorist! A birdwatcher was watching magpies and buzzards over a freshly ploughed field when he caught a sharp glimpse of something golden. Arriving at the site, he found a 2,000-year-old Celtic coin in the mud. As he is also an avid detectorist, he went home to get his equipment and when he returned, within hours he found another 1,300 gold coins dating back to the mid-1st century. His find set a new British record...

The unique Anglo-Saxon cross from the detectorist's hoard has regained its original appearance after three years of cleaning

When Derek McLennan discovered the so-called Galloway Treasure in 2014 with his CTX 3030, it was a huge event that literally took the world by storm. Over time we were able to watch videos of the recovery of one of Scotland's greatest treasures, and later waited with baited breath for thethe CT scan of the contents of the unique Carolingian pot, from which conservators then extracted hundreds of beautiful gold and silver artefacts... And today, we're witnessing another success story: The presentation of a 9th century silver and gilded cross in its original glory.

Archaeologists discover rare Viking treasure with the help of a metal detector

In 2019, evidence of a 1,500-year-old farm and a later settlement from the early to high Middle Ages was discovered in Viggbyholm, Sweden. Recently, archaeologists found a rare treasure trove of Viking silverware in one of the younger housesof Viking jewellery and coins, which they say "exceeds all expectations"...

Budding detectorist finds unique coin depot from the Viking period

A handful of scattered silver coins were found in a ploughed field near Brobyværk on the Danish island of Fyn by detectorist and amateur historian Claus Gundersen. When he contacted the Museum of the Archipelago and an archaeologist arrived at the site, they found a container with hundreds of silver coins. Much to everyone's surprise, it turned out that there was another vessel lying deeper in the ground. Also filled to the brim with coins, but with the remnants of the cloth in which the coins were placed...

Rare medieval knife rejected by archaeologists, detectorist paid for analysis and convinced them

Rare medieval knife rejected by archaeologists, detectorist paid for analysis and convinced themScottish History buff and budding detectorist Craig Johnstone searched the woods near Penicuik for traces of the 1666 battle. But on that day he made a find that at first not only he, but also the archaeologists he approached, thought was a modern affair and refused to accept. But they were wrong by several hundred years...

Students discover unknown 15th century text hidden in an invisible layer of a medieval manuscript

First-year students at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York have discovered a lost text on the pages of a 15th-century manuscript, which they traced back to a unique method they developed themselves.

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