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The gun that killed Billy the Kid was sold for an absurdly record amount

An extremely dramatic auction was held on August 27 at Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles. Guns of famous gunfighters of the Wild West went up for sale; revolvers and rifles that were involved in famous gunfights. The most expensive of these is the Colt .44 with which Sheriff Pat Garrett shot America's most famous outlaw, Billy the Kid. Due to the overwhelming interest of bidders from around the world, Garretts Colt set a new world record as the most expensive firearm ever sold at auction...

Archaeologists find one of the largest metal sets of the Bronze Age

Four similarly arranged Late Bronze Age treasures were discovered near Gannat in central France. The assemblages contain hundreds of bronze artefacts; this is by far the largest hoard of Bronze Age metal objects ever discovered in France. It has also become one of the richest discoveries in the whole of Europe...

Shamanic greeting from the Bronze Age: Carved snake staff in perfect condition

Finnish archaeologists have discovered a 4,400-year-old life-size wooden stick in the shape of a snake. It may have been a ritual tool of a Neolithic shaman. The half-metre long stick with a wide open snake mouth was carved from a single piece of wood. It lay perfectly preserved in the peat of a prehistoric wetland near the town of Järvensuo, about 100 km northwest of Helsinki...

7,000-year-old clay seal confirms a centre of prehistoric trade

Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric Israeli village of Tel Tsaf in the Beit She'an Valley have discovered a 7,000-year-old clay seal with geometric patterns. It is the oldest of its kind to date in the southern Levant, indicating that Tel Tsaf was a busy administrative and commercial crossroads. It may have been used to mark a shipment or to seal a warehouse, such as a grain silo.

Detectorists find set of Roman coins, scientists identify sacrificial offerings

Experts at Leiden University have found evidence that a set of Roman coins found near the River Aa in the DutchBrabant were not "just ordinary" treasure, but the long-stored offerings of travellers seeking a safe ford across the river. The assemblage was discovered by brothers Wim and Nico Schaijk using metal detectors in a field near the village of Berlicum in November 2017; a newly published study takes their find to the next level...

A 2,000-year-old golden disk - a symbol of national identity - has returned to Peru after 170 years

The National Museum of the American Indian has signed a memorandum with the Peruvian government for the return of the pre-Inca gold disk, symbol and coat of arms of the city of Cusco, to the country. An exceptional artifact of previously unknown significance and an interesting history of its owners, one of whom was even President of Peru, will finally return to its place of origin.

Detectorist finds extremely rare gold coins from the Black Death

Two unique medieval gold coins dating from the mid-14th century were discovered using a metal detector near Reepham in Norfolk County back in October 2019, but PAS archaeologists presented the find after its evaluation this week. They are rare Edward III coins from the harsh times when Europe was decimated by the plague. There are only 3 similar examples in English collections.

Beautiful Roman signet ring with Achilles and Penthesilea changes historians' views

At the site of the archaeological site of Tossal de Baltarga in the Catalan Pyrenees, a rivera jeweled seal ring with an engraving of Achilles holding the slain Amazonian queen Penthesilea. According to a recent study published in the European Journal of Archaeology, the ring and other finds are evidence that the highlands were much more important to the Romans than previously thought.

Northern Germany's oldest shoe discovered

Archaeologists from the Lower Saxony State Heritage Office (NLD) in cooperation with the mining company Vechta found a well-preserved leather shoe. Together with various parts of the wagon, it had been hanging in the peat bog right next to an old plank path for more than 2,000 years.

Ancient burial site with rich equipment reveals new facts

Excavations of a burial site in the ancient Roman city of Boutae in southeastern France have revealed richly furnished Germanic tombs dating from the second half of the 5th century. Research suggests that a stable Burgundian population lived in the Rhineland as early as 443.

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