French authorities have seized a “priceless” haul of over 27,000 archaeological artifacts ranging from Bronze Age bracelets to Roman coins that had been secretly amassed by a single person in the east of the country, customs said Wednesday.
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A reconstructed Prussian palace will open in Berlin on Wednesday as a museum complex housing colonial artifacts, just as debate is gathering pace around the return of treasures plundered from abroad.
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Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne.
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An amateur treasure-hunter has uncovered one of the most significant Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland, including jewelry and a 3,000-year-old sword, authorities said Monday.
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A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar’s sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions.
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A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago.
Read moreTwo amateur British treasure-hunters were sentenced Friday to long prison terms for stealing a hoard of 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon coins and jewelry valued at millions of dollars.
Read moreRobbers rammed a car into a medieval cathedral in southwest France early Monday, breaking windows and sawing through metal bars to grab silver chalices and other irreplaceable church treasures, local authorities said.
Read moreSan Diego Superior Court broke open a time capsule from 1961 on Friday containing court documents, newspapers announcing John Glenn’s trip to the moon and letters of congratulations on the new courthouse from past presidents.
Read moreCoins and bracelets from the 1st century that were looted from western Romania years ago and smuggled out of the country were put on display Thursday after a joint investigation with Austria brought them back home.
Read moreHundreds of 1,000-year-old silver coins, rings, pearls and bracelets linked to the era of Danish King Harald Gormsson have been found on the eastern German island of Ruegen in the Baltic Sea.
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French archaeologists have discovered a medieval treasure on the site of a famous abbey in central France that had remained buried for over eight centuries.
Read moreA company that provided its proprietary maps and software to a hunt for sunken treasure off the Florida coast was wrongly denied its right to intervene in a case involving 400 pieces of gold and other artifacts retrieved from the wreck, the 11th Circuit has ruled.
Read moreAlmost exactly a century after the sinking of the S.S. Mantola, a World War I-era steamship believed to be carrying $18 million in silver treasure, explorers have brought a federal action laying claim to the vessel.
Read moreA federal judge in Ohio ordered a former treasure hunter to divulge the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins or face another contempt-of-court charge.
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British officials say they’ve been unable to trace the rightful heirs to a trove of gold coins found stashed inside a piano and worth a “life-changing” amount of money.
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