Ancient Treasures Found in Western Turkey

Abstract: Archeological treasures have been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea, (western Turkey). The team of archaeologists have discovered a street, a city door and its towers, a monumental fountain, a temple, theatres, and the biggest coliseums in ancient Anatolia or Asia Minor, where the modern Turkish Republic is located.

Keywords: Ancient Treasures, Western Turkey, Archeological treasures, Greek amphitheatre, temple, coliseums, excavation team.

Archeological treasures including a Greek amphitheatre have been unearthed in the ancient city of Laodicea, which is being excavated in western Turkey. Local businesses have been working with regional leaders in the western province of Denizli on the project, the first of its kind in Turkey.

"Something has taken place here that is unseen in the rest of the country," Celal Simsek, head of the excavation team, told the Anatolia news agency.

Ancient Roman Coins Once Again Found in the UK

Abstract: A metal detector hobbyist stumbled upon a treasure of a lifetime. Keith Bennett found over 1,400 Roman coins dating back between 2006 BC to 195 BC! The silver Roman coins were stashed in a large pot. It is possible that they could be tied to a wealthy land owner back in Emperor Augustus reign.

Keywords: Ancient Roman Coins, metal detector, treasure, coins collection, historic find, brilliant, treasure hunting.

This is yet another story from the UK, where a metal detector hobbyist stumbled upon a treasure of a lifetime. Keith Bennett was using his metal detector on a Stratford farm owner’s field when his metal detector suddenly alerted him of a strong signal. This strong signal turned out to be over 1,400 Roman coins (or Denarii as they were called back in the day) dating back between 2006 BC to 195 BC! The coins have already been deemed “authentic treasure” which is good in case someone was trying to play a big practical joke on Mr. Bennett.

370000 Dollar Ring Lost, Reward for Treasure Hunters

Abstract: A man by the name of Robert Gismondi accidentally dropped his $370k Ring off the pier. Now his is offering a reward in the THOUSANDS for finding his ring. Ok, so for you treasure hunter divers out there lets go over some clues to help you find that treasure.

Keywords: Daytona Beach restaurant, Ring, treasure hunter, white gold, Diamond.

A man by the name of Robert Gismondi was eating at a Daytona Beach restaurant when he accidentally dropped his $370k Ring off the pier. He said he was reaching into his pocket to answer his phone when he pulled his hand out the ring slipped off, and made a splash in the water below. Gismondi is offering a reward in the THOUSANDS for finding his ring. You might have to contend with his insurance agency, but I would act quick as they are probably slow to act.

Ok, so for you treasure hunter divers out there lets go over some clues to help you find that treasure:

-Location is: Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach

10000 Ancient Roman Coin Aged 1700 Discovered in Near Shrewsbury

Abstract: Nick Davies found a amazing haul of 10,000 Roman coins on his first ever treasure hunt. This is a stunning collection of coins. The most of coins were found inside in the broken brown pot. The coins have spent an estimated 1,700 years underground. The silver and bronze 'nummi' coins, dating from between 240AD and 320AD. This find is one of the largest collections of Roman coins.

Keywords: Ancient Roman Coin, Near Shrewsbury, metal detector, treasure hunt, silver coins, bronze coins, treasure, coins collections.

What a lucky day for a guy who just started a hobby of metal detecting for a month. UK Dailymail reported that Nick Davies found this amazing haul of 10,000 Roman coins on his first ever treasure hunt. The stunning collection of coins, most of which were found inside the broken brown pot, was uncovered by Nick during a search of land in the Shrewsbury area - just a month after he took up the hobby of metal detecting. Experts say the coins have spent an estimated 1,700 years underground.

The silver and bronze 'nummi' coins, dating from between 240AD and 320AD, were discovered in a farmer's field near Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, last month. His amazing find is one of the largest collections of Roman coins ever discovered in Shropshire.

2000yo Iron Age Materials Should Return to Anglesey

Ancient artefacts, more than 2,000 years old, should be brought back to Anglesey (Wales) claims an island politician. A large hoard of Iron Age materials were discovered in Llyn Cerrig Bach, Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, in 1942. The items are currently kept in Cardiff, but local councillor Gwilym O Jones believes the treasure troves should brought back and displayed at Llangefni's Oriel Môn. And the council agrees, explaining they are currently in talks on that very subject.

Cllr Jones said: "I understand why the treasures were taken down to the National Museum in Cardiff. At the time there was nowhere secure enough on Anglesey to keep them. But that has changed in recent years. I feel that now is the time to campaign to bring the treasures back. I'm not talking about bringing them back permanently, but I feel they should here for part of the year, say through the summer months. I think many people would be interested in seeing them."

Anglesey County Council's head of museums, archives and culture, Pat West, said: "We have a good working relationship with the National Museum and are in negotiations with them about holding a short term exhibition of the artefact found at Llyn Cerrig Bach. "As yet we have no set date for an exhibition but it would be in the next two to three years."

Chariots, weapons, tools and decorated metalwork items were cast from a causeway or island into Llyn Cerrig Bach between 300 BCE and 100 CE. They were discovered in 1942 by William Roberts as the airfield was being extended to accommodate the US air force bomber, The Flying Fortress. The site was investigated by Sir Cyril Fox, the then keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales in 1946.

2000-year-old American Indian Masterpieces Can Be Observed in Cleveland in 2010

"Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection", a major traveling exhibition, developed by the Fenimore Art Museum, making its debut at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) in March 2010, explores Native North American art from the Eastern Woodlands to the Northwest through more than 140 masterpieces spanning 2,000 years. The exhibition provides visitors with a broad understanding and appreciation of the aesthetic accomplishments and cultural heritage of this country’s first peoples. "Art of the American Indians" opens at CMA on March 7, 2010 and runs through May 30 before traveling to Minneapolis , Indianapolis and San Francisco.

The objects in the exhibition are drawn from 'The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of Native North American Art', which was carefully assembled over the past two decades by Eugene V. Thaw, one of the art world’s most distinguished connoisseurs and collectors of art. This is the first time this collection is being treated as an exhibition and several key objects will only be seen at the Cleveland venue.

1910 Soda and Beer Bottles Discovered at Construction Sites

Two construction sites less than a mile apart in Auburn have yielded historical finds.

Digging up the Placer County Courthouse parking lot, a construction crew discovered a two-foot- deep hole that recently yielded several dirt-encrusted bottles dating back to 1852.

Last week, a sharp-eyed backhoe operator saw glass glinting in the light of a mound of dirt at the city’s Central Square Streetscape project. That yielded a sizable stash of soda and beer bottles buried around 1910.

Cliff Kennedy, a Penryn historical artifact expert, is now working with the county Museums Division to research the past of the newly found collection of bottles. They’ll shed more light on both Auburn’s Gold Rush days and, with the Central Square find, the A.W. Kenison bottling business.

10,000-year-old Mesolithic Era Flint Discovered in Coventry

BUDDING archaeologist Samuel Owens uncovered a 10,000 year old piece of history when he found a segment of flint in his dad’s allotment.

The piece has now been identified as coming from the Mesolithic era and is believed to have been used as a type of sharp weapon, possibly for spearing fish.

Samuel, 11, and a pupil at President Kennedy School, had been out with his dad at their allotment in Watery Lane, Keresley, when they made the discovery.

“I just saw it sticking out of the ground when my dad was digging.

"We picked it up and looked it up on the internet,” Samuel said.

Fossils Discovered In Limestone Cave Southwest of Chicago

Remnants from a cave embedded in a limestone quarry southwest of Chicago have yielded a fossil trove that may influence the known history of north central Illinois some 310 million years ago. Initial research findings were presented April 12 by University of Illinois at Chicago earth and environmental sciences professor Roy Plotnick at a regional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Lawrence, Kan.

Plotnick's talk presents the broad strokes about what's in the cave and the research opportunities it affords. His research colleagues include Fabien Kenig, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at UIC and Andrew Scott, professor of palaeobotany and coal geology at Royal Holloway University of London.

"What's really valuable about the cave is the level of preservation of the material," said Kenig. "We see charcoal that preserves biological features at the cellular level. Charcoal is an indication of fire burning ancient trees.

Man Discovers Treasure Using Google Earth

Some people log onto Google Earth and spy men sitting on the toilet. Others find buried treasures of a different kind.

At least that is the claim of Nathan Smith, a Los Angeles musician. Mr. Smith was noodling around on Google Earth one day, randomly examining parts of the Aransas Pass in Texas. Suddenly, his eyes darted to a shoeprint-shaped outline near Barketine Creek.

His suspicions and, presumably, his vast knowledge of history, were sufficiently aroused for him to believe that what he had found was the wreckage of a Spanish barquentine (think large boat with three or more masts) that supposedly met its final resting place south of Refugio, Texas, in 1822.

Mr. Smith scuttled off to consult a few experts and concluded the ship and its treasure was worth $3 billion. With all due promptness, he grabbed hold of a metal detector and drove all the way to the site. One small problem: the land appears to be part of a ranch owned by the late Morgan Dunn O'Connor.

You will feel palpitations in the deeper part of your throat to discover that this has all ended up in court.

Man Finds Treasure, Can't Dig It

It's a mystery going back more than 140 years. Many have searched, but no one has found the millions of dollars in gold lost during the Civil War in Elk County.

Now, one treasure hunting team from Clearfield says it knows where the gold is.

The story dates back to around the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. According to legend, Abraham Lincoln ordered a gold shipment to help pay Union soldiers and the route for the shipment came right through Elk County.

The soldiers transporting the gold made it to Ridgway and St. Mary's, but after that they disappeared -- except for the wagon train's guide, a man known only as Conners.

"(Conners) was the guide of the whole expedition and when he made it into Huntingdon, he claimed he couldn't remember anything. He couldn't find the dead bodies;

Rare Treasure Plant Discovered in Sichuan's Tibetan Area

About 600 plants of Isoetes hypsophila, a first-level state-protected wild plant, have been found in nine places in Baiyu County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

It is the second time that Isoetes hypsophila has been seen in this area following its initial discovery here in 2006.

The subsistence of Isoetes hypsophila is greatly affected by the shrinking of wetlands, drought and biological competition. Each of the nine distribution places covers an area less than 100 sq m, and in some places, the number of Isoetes hypsophila is smaller than 30.

Researchers said that follow-up investigations aim to discover more about its distribution and habitat in order to better understand how to protect the species.

Shortly About Treasure Hunting

The search for sunken ships and underwater treasure is a standard plot line in Hollywood movies. In real life, the most successful treasure hunters aren’t a band of rough adventurers but companies, sometimes publicly traded, with smooth-talking CEOs.

One such company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, is led by CEO Gregg Stemm, an individual who has earned notoriety in the underwater archaeological community by aggressively exploiting, some would say destroying, shipwrecks.

Odyssey is currently embroiled in a legal dispute with the Spanish government over ownership of a sunken ship located some 180 miles west of Portugal in international waters. The discovery became public in May 2007 when Odyssey removed tons of coins from the wreck site to Florida.

Treasure Valued at $10M Discovered in Sunken Pirate Ship Off Coast of Borneo

Not all the pirate news is bad these days. German newspaper Bild reports that Dresden-based treasure hunters have found riches in a pirate ship that sank off the coast of Borneo in 1806.

“At first, everything on the ocean floor looks encrusted and worthless. But when you hold the treasure in your hands, it’s an indescribable rush of adrenaline. You’re witness to times past,” expedition leader Martin Wenzel told Bild, according to German news website The Local.

Wenzel told Bild that divers have so far found 1.5 tonnes of silver coins, gold jewellery, cannons, crystal and porcelain in the wreck, The Local reports. The value of the coins alone is believed to be more than $10-million Cdn.

Over the past two years, Wenzel and his team searched 35 ship wrecks in the area but only two before now turned up anything of value.

The name of the pirate ship that finally paid off? Forbes. That should have been their first clue to its treasure.