Blackbeard Buries His Treasure by Howard Pyle. This was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August–September 1887) Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The image of pirates as one-eyed, one-legged, bloodthirsty plunderers…

The rocks around 44-year old Bernth Engstrom glisten with gold. He has made this century’s discovery in Sweden and started a gold rush unprecedented in Wermland (Midwestern Sweden). Now people…

There’s gold in them hills again in California, according to local gold hunters who have been stunned by their recent finds in the Sierra Nevada foothills. “It’s going to get…

The Wickham Market Treasure Trove is a trove of 840 Iron Age gold staters discovered in March 2008 by auto technician Michael Dark using a metal detector in a field…

The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors.   Image In just…

A centuries-old shipwreck with a bloody history, a secretive order of medieval knights and treasure beyond your wildest dreams — what sound like elements from a storybook are actually very…

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After 500 years, new information about the rumored Inca treasure, which contains 10 tons of gold, has come to light. This discovery has sent shockwaves through the archaeological community, reigniting…