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A fresh mystery is gripping Britain's religious community: Just how did a treasure trove of rare medallions and coins collected by a former archbishop of Canterbury end up at the bottom of the River Wear?
In an Oct. 4 story about an Illinois woman searching for gold coins after finding a note in an old chair, The Associated Press erroneously identified the hometown of the person who helped reveal the note as a hoax. Betty Atkinson Ryan lives in Mason City, Ill., not Mason City, Iowa.
An Illinois woman who set out on a treasure hunt for buried gold coins after finding a cryptic note in an antique rocking chair may have been the victim of a prolific prankster who died more than 30 years ago.
A western Illinois postal worker's hunt for supposedly buried treasure continues in Springfield. Patty Henken launched the search recently when she was refinishing an antique chair and found a key in an envelope with a note promising $250 in U.S. gold coins buried in a chest in Springfield.
Divers have concluded a mission to retrieve 9.5 tons of unrefined gold and silver worth nearly $22 million from a shipwreck off southern Argentina.
Deep-sea explorers based in Florida filed an objection Tuesday to a judge's recommendation that they give 17 tons of shipwreck treasure back to Spain.
One man's trash is definitely another man's treasure. A Queens man hired to remove material from a deceased artist's estate has found artifacts worth thousands of dollars in a discarded barrel.
Divers battling high winds and waves have recovered nearly a ton of unrefined silver from a ship that recently sank off the Argentine coast, police said Wednesday, easing suspicions about insurance claims on the vessel.
Florida deep-sea explorers who raised an estimated $500 million treasure from the 200-year-old wreck of a Spanish galleon should give all the loot back to Spain, a federal magistrate judge said.
The storm set in suddenly, darkening the midmorning sky. Winds reached 60 miles an hour (100 kilometers/hour). Waves towered over the refitted fishing trawler, with swells as high as 26 feet (8 meters).
An Art Deco remnant of the Paris subway system has sold for $27,500 at auction.
If he’s a pirate who’s made off with a half-billion-dollar booty haul, as Spain says he is, Greg Stemm didn’t look the part. Sporting a closely trimmed gray beard and wearing a sport coat with a black shirt and matching slacks, he never once said “Arrrr” or “matey.” He didn’t even have an eye patch or a parrot perched on his tweed-upholstered shoulder.
Two people searching for treasure beneath an old Mexican hacienda died in a gas-filled tunnel, and two neighbors and two emergency workers who tried to rescue them also perished, authorities said Tuesday.
Peru says it is pushing forward with a legal claim in the U.S. seeking $500 million in silver coins plucked from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1804.
Three state highway workers cleaning up litter picked up an abandoned tire — and found about $100,000 inside.
Israeli archaeologists said they have unearthed more than 250 gold coins from the seventh century on the edge of Jerusalem's walled Old City. A British tourist volunteering at the dig discovered the trove on Sunday.
Authorities say a hoard of 4,500-year-old copper weapons recovered off a northern beach is the largest of its kind ever found in Greece.
Florida deep-sea explorers who struck it rich in 2007 on the wreck of a Spanish galleon say they have found two more shipwrecks in the north Atlantic Ocean.
Peru's government wants to know if 17 tons of silver coins recovered from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean last year were made there, complicating the legal quest to determine who rightfully owns the multimillion-dollar treasure.
Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash.
Dan Uggla doubled home the go-ahead run in the 11th inning, Jorge Cantu homered and the Florida Marlins beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-3 on Saturday night.
There's no end in sight for the treasure dispute between U.S.-based deep-sea explorers and the Spanish government.
Spain formally laid claim Thursday to a shipwreck that yielded a $500 million treasure, saying it has proof the vessel was Spanish.
A federal judge has denied a bid by Florida deep-sea explorers to keep secret the details of a 19th-century shipwreck that has yielded $500 million in treasure, a ruling the Spanish government applauded Friday.
Twenty people accused in the plunder and sale of thousands of archaeological items have been arrested and their suspected booty — including Roman and Stone Age pieces — seized, police said Friday.
Novice metal detector man discovers 'stunning' treasure hoardA Iron Age treasure hoard has been unearthed by a safari park keeper using a metal detector for the first time. David Booth was stunned when he found several 2000-year-old gold neckbands in a field in Stirlingshire. He had driven to the site and parked his car.
Amateur 'stunned' after £1m findAn Iron Age treasure hoard unearthed by a metal-detecting amateur has been unveiled.
Durham Cathedral divers discover gold and silver treasure trove in riverbedAfter almost 30 years, the riverbed below Durham Cathedral has given up a bewildering secret: a hoard of ecclesiastical gold and silver, including medals, goblets, and crucifixes once owned by the Queen, the pope and other state and church leaders.
Anglo-Saxon Treasure Found in Britain An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector stumbled upon the largest Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found, a massive seventh-century hoard of gold and silver sword decorations, crosses and other items, British archaeologists said Thursday.
Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in EnglandA harvest of Anglo Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.
Getting the most out of treasurePorcupine quills and cactus spines are among the tools used to prepare a £1m hoard of Viking treasure to go on public show in York on 17 September.
Rare ancient jewels found ATHENS - ARCHAEOLOGISTS on the Greek island of Crete have unearthed the 2,900-year-old tomb of three women buried with jewels of surprisingly advanced skill, culture officials said on Friday.
According to the CIA's 2008 estimates, China is now the wealthiest country in the world, with a staggering $368,200,000,000 in the country's account balance. The United States comes in last in the list of 191 countries, with a shameful -$568,800,000,000.
Buried in a hurry, but it took a millennium to find - Viking treasure goes on showThe "largest and most important" Viking hoard found in Britain since 1840, which could shed new light on the historical period, will go on display in London and in York after careful conservation work.
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Property developer nets $12m pirate bootyA German treasure-hunter has netted about $12 million in booty from a pirate ship sunk off the coast of Borneo in 1806, the Bild newspaper says.
Judge Sides With Spain in Sunken-Treasure Fight - WSJ.comFlorida judge commands private treasure hunting company to return $500M treasure recovered from wreck to Spain. The sunken ship was lost in combat with the English in 1803.
Treasurer accused of taking $44,000 from church group - Bay News 9A treasurer at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in New Port Richey is accused of stealing $44,000 from the women's club at the church.
Silver, cars, a piano, bodies, a train, ships, a giraffe, t.p., and more: Uncovering the secrets beneath New York HarborThe steady transformation of New York's waterfront from wasteland to playground means more of us are spending time along the city's edge.
'Sexy' ancient figurine found LONDON - A SEXUALLY suggestive Venus figurine with oversized breasts and thighs dates back at least 35,000 years and shows ancient humans had sex on their minds, researchers said on Wednesday.
Ssshhhhh......can you hear that? It's a vacation calling my name. Pools.....beaches......maid service......mountains......clean air......sleeping late....... I nnnneeeeeedd a vacation.
Buccaneering Brits accused of stealing Spanish bootyThree British divers will appear in court in Spain later today, accused of stealing treasure from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.
Gandhi items sold for $2.8m NEW DELHI - THE trademark round spectacles and other belongings of Mahatma Gandhi will soon be back in India.
Ancient pharaoh statues found CAIRO - EGYPTIAN and European archaeologists have uncovered two large statues of a pharaoh who ruled about 3,500 years ago, the country's antiquities chief said on Thursday.
Google Earth 'helps man find buried Spanish treasure ship'A treasure hunter who claims to have found a buried ship filled with treasure using Google Earth, the popular satellite imaging service, is fighting a legal battle to excavate the site.
HMS Victory: why the sinking feeling? For centuries, Victory seemed destined to remain part of maritime legend as one of the great lost treasure ships – until last Monday, when a US underwater salvage firm announced that it had found Victory and had been secretly working on the wreck since May 2008.
Treasure Trove Of Hidden Nuts Leads To $242 TowDEMOTTE, Ind. (AP) -- Aw, nuts. That's likely what Hope Wideup thought when her car's turn signal and windshield wipers wouldn't work. It's also what she found later when she opened the hood.
Hunt Ends for Catskill TreasureScores of treasure hunters tried to locate a golden doubloon hidden in the Catskills as a tourism promotion. Finally, after 17 years, someone has found it and will claim a bejeweled crown appraised at nearly $11,000.
GET HAPPY! - 10 Things Science Says Will Make You HappyExcerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
Tourists accidentally buy 600 pounds of uraniumIn August 2006, the three men - one of whom is surnamed Liu, while the other two are surnamed Wang - purchased a glittering "treasure" for $2,000 in Kyrgyzstan. They brought it back to Xinjiang, hoping to make a fortune by selling it.
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