Viking treasure-trove unearthed
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LONDON -- One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced yesterday.
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A cache of privately made recordings from the late pianist William Kapell has surfaced, a find that music lovers are calling an incalculable treasure.
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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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Archaeologists have excavated what is being hailed as an extremely important Viking burial ground in northeast England, those involved in the excavation said.
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Scientists drilling ice cores in Greenland have recovered what appear to be plant remains from nearly 3km (two miles) below the surface.
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"The treasure in this case is the wreck itself."  A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island.The barnacled cannons and anchors found stacked beneath just 10 feet of crystalline coastal waters off Catalina Island are believed to be the wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by the Scottish privateer in 1699, Indiana University researchers say.'When I first looked down and saw it, I couldn't believe everybody missed it for 300 years,' said Charles Beeker, a scuba-diving archaeologist who teaches at Indiana University. 'I've been on thousands of wrecks and this is one of the first where it's been untouched by looters.' Read more
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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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Previously unseen papers belonging to Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go on display.
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By Courtney Cutright, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 9--American Cancer Society Discovery Shop volunteers Margot Realmuto and Bobbi Cobough uncovered a local treasure last month while sorting through donated items at the nonprofit resale store in Moneta.
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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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Description: A search is under way in Norway for the iconic painting The Scream, stolen Sunday morning from the Munch Museum. Armed men took the expressionist work by Edvard Munch and several other paintings during the museum&#39;s regular touring hours.
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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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For the last five years, archaeologists have been slowly unearthing the remains of Thang Long, uncovering millions of artifacts spanning 1,300 years.
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The playground legal principle "Finders keepers, losers weepers" is being put to the test in an international dispute over what could be the richest sunken treasure ever found: 17 tons of silver coins brought up from a centuries-old shipwreck.
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A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed an ancient gold mask and a ring featuring an "Olympic" rower in what he called an unrivalled find in the study of classical antiquity.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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By TOM COX  SALT    By Jeremy Page    VIKING, [pound]14.99   Flat it is, but north-west East Anglia can spark a surprisingly rugged imagination.