Dad's Viking treasure discovered
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A precious Viking arm ring is handed to a museum after it was found among a late father's belongings.
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Some 1,000 years ago, Viking sailors became Europe's first great maritime explorers -- setting out for places unknown, not really understanding what they were finding, and often not returning home. It was a halting beginning to what later flowered when southern European powers sailed and colonized the globe and to what is now as unremarkable as a tanker of oil or a shipment of apples leaving home port for delivery halfway around the world....
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A detailed survey of ancient cave carvings at a site first discovered last year in Nottinghamshire, England, reveals the etchings may be some of most elaborate Ice Age art ever found.
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A team retracing the route of a group of Victorian Arctic explorers have found parts of their 172-year-old ship.
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The unearthing in Macedonia of what is thought to be cognac dating from World War I sparks a treasure hunt.
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New Jersey backyards may be full of treasure -- who knew?
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When the passengers and crew of the British European Airways Viking took off into the skies above London 55 years ago, they could not have known that the fate of the aircraft would become an enduring mystery.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an ancient letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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A replica Viking ship heads across the North Sea as it tries to recreate the voyages of early Norsemen.
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An archaeologist is taking a second look at a small cannon found by fishermen off the Virginia coast more than two decades ago in hopes of determining how it got to the bottom of the ocean &#151; and who left it there.
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Archaeologists unearth what is believed to be the first discovery of a Viking burial site in the UK.
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An archaeologist using radar technology said Monday he has found the outline of what he believes is a 1,000-year-old Viking longship under a pub car park in north-west England.
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Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people ...Comment
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A long-lost painting by Swedish master Carl Larsson, tucked away in a private collection in France for more than a century, sold for $730,000 at a Stockholm auction Tuesday.
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Father and three children who went searching for a Christmas tree found alive after three day
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Archaeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that might finally illuminate the lives and religious ...Comment