Discovered in 1963 in Alicante, Spain, the Treasure of Villena is one of Europe’s most significant prehistoric gold collections. The hoard includes 66 artifacts, mostly gold, carefully crafted ...

The Spanish police seized gold pieces believed to be Greco-Scythian artifacts, dating back centuries, and arrested the people selling them. But archaeologists are not so sure of their value.

Over the years, archaeologists have recovered tens of thousands of objects from the Nanhai No. 1, including 100 gold artifacts and ... of beeswax imported from Europe also washed ashore in the ...

Recovering it involved authorities in Europe and the United States and ... have attracted looters who used metal detectors to find gold artifacts hidden underground on the steep slopes.

Metal detectorist Sverre Næsheim visited a farm in Hovland in 2019 and unearthed an ancient gold item known as a “gullgubbe,” or gold foil, the Cultural Heritage Office of Vestfold County Municipality ...

The British Museum and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) announced on Thursday that 32 gold ... Europe and North America are facing criticism and calls for the return of artwork ...

In the Asante culture, the gold artifacts are believed to be invested ... The collections in many European museums tend to be owned by the state, however, with laws in place to govern their ...

He said the Netherlands, the largest investor from the European Union in Indonesia ... coins, metal and gold artifacts, which are believed to have been sold abroad, the report said.

About 200 years after the fall of the Roman Empire, western Europe started making thousands ... They all had a higher fraction of trace gold and larger amounts of heavier lead isotopes, which ...

An ongoing excavation in Damietta, Egypt, has uncovered 63 tombs from more than 2,500 years ago, alongside a trove of gold artifacts, coins and pottery. The artifacts could provide further insight ...