Metal Detecting UK; Staffordshire Hoard Off To USA

The Staffordshire Hoard is set to be viewed in the United States in an exhibition entitled Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England's Dark Ages, and will open in Washington later this year at the National Geographic...

Creativity - lost treasure

I have to admit that there are 18 articles on my desktop waiting to be finished or, shall I say, started. But the blank page with title 'Creativity – lost treasure' been sitting in one of the folders for longer...

Treasure Hidden in L.A. for iPhone Users

Los Angeles, July 3-4 If you own an iPhone and live in Los Angeles, strap on an eye patch and prepare yourself for a weekend of treasure huntin'. This weekend there will be real treasure hidden all over LA for...

Cyrus Cylinder Row Prompts Iran to Cut Ties With Brit. Museum

A row over an artefact from the Persian Empire known as the Cyrus Cylinder has prompted Iran to cut ties with the British Museum.  The Cyrus Cylinder is covered in the ancient Persian form of writing known as...

Port Call - Key West

KEY WEST, FLORIDA - This is day two of a seven day travel report from the Disney Cruise Line Magic. After a great night of feeling the gentile movement of the Disney Cruise ship Magic we arrive at our first port...

BC's Great Bear Rainforest saved but what about trophy hunting?

BC's Great Bear Rainforest is going to be saved tomorrow, by the March 31st deadline, but what about the decision on bear trophy hunting in the area? The government is going to announce tomorrow a new approach to...

IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City

Future to the back; "3D" interactive virtual version of the Forbidden City now open, download it and "walk" around in it. "IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the...

Treasure Hunters Take to Sea to Start Salvage Season

" Today's the day," legendary treasure hunter Mel Fisher would say as he set out to sea each summer in search of the ocean's secrets. Before his death in 1998, he found more than $1 billion worth of treasure, including gold and silver bars, emeralds, coins and artifacts.As...

Digging for Oak Island Treasure Resumes

This is an exciting time, excavations of Oak Island have resumed. If you have never heard of Oak Island, I suggest reading up on it. Situated in Nova Scotia's Mahone Bay, a depression in the ground was first...

The Amber Room: Nazi Plunder Found?

"A German lawmaker and part-time treasure hunter claimed Thursday he may have found where the Nazis stashed pieces of the storied Amber Room treasure plundered from the Soviet Union during World War II.Working...

BC Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess Shale

Certainly a major importance how British Columbia and vertabrates evolved over 530 million years ago." Scientists solve mystery of origins of Burgess ShaleRandy Boswell, Canwest News...

Islamic treasure fetches 1,000 times estimate in sale

" LONDON (Reuters) - A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday. Experts believe the artefact's real...

Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs

"Census throws up treasure trove for trivia buffs Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Migration Correspondent How many Presbyterian Pakistanis live in Ireland? Are there Chinese-born Travellers? Widowed teenagers? Most pressingly, how many Lithuanian immigrants live in semi-detached houses...

Exeter's Temple of Doom Gives Up Treasure

"His real name is Derek Dugdale but all his mates call him Indiana Jones. He's the man who visited Exeter's very own Temple of Doom and emerged with a treasure beyond the dreams of avarice. Derek was digging deep and hard in Princesshay when he saw something strange,...

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - Captain Kidd's Ship

The wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the Dominican Republic, a research team claims. The underwater archaeology team, from Indiana University, says they have found the remains of Quedagh...

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