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These coin hoards, many discovered by lucky amateurs, contain treasures dating back as far as 1,500 years.

Archaeologists in Cyprus found two tombs dating to the Bronze Age that contained 500 grave goods.

The largest Anglo-Saxon hoard ever discovered in England was unearthed by a metal detectorist in Norfolk.

A golden bowl adorned with an image of the sun has been found in a 3000-year-old settlement in Austria.

Archaeologists have found the head of a warrior decapitated by the Ottomans in the 14th century.

A Danish man with a metal detector found a sixth-century hoard buried by a chieftain.

Fool's gold, or pyrite, sometimes contains tiny threads of real gold, new research finds.

Two gold coins dating to Black Death period in England shed light on medieval coin usage.

Scientists now think they understand how gold can form veins thicker than a man's forearm: the clumping of gold nanoparticles.

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest gold artifact in southwest Germany, a delicate gold spiral buried in the 3,800-year-old tomb of a woman.