Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

A few days before Christmas several years ago, David Moss and Tom Taylor headed out with the metal detectors to do some exploring in Wales. The duo was in a field in Caerhun Community, Conwy near a ...

LETCA VECHE, Romania – A Romanian metal detectorist stumbled upon an extraordinary piece of history, unearthing a remarkable hoard of ancient silver coins. "I could feel my heart beating quite hard," ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...

Treasure hunting is not unlike finding a stud in your walls. Rather than a stud finder, you just need a metal detector. Whereas finding treasure once meant locating an “X” on an ancient map, today’s ...

A man using a metal detector discovered a centuries-old Dutch coin on the southern coast of Poland earlier this week, museum officials announced. The coin, a golden ducat, is from the Netherlands, ...

A little over a year ago, a group of metal detectorists found a hoard of 21 coins in a field near Okehamption Castle in Devon, England. The find was just recently brought to light due to laws ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

We're not trying to scare you. People in San Antonio are finding treasures from the turn of the century – as in, the turn of the 20th century – underground. As KENS 5 learned, while these discoveries ...

The popularity of this activity among British women has surged in recent years. What used to be seen as a somewhat quirky ...