Natalie McCaul, curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum in York, looks at a silver Viking neck ring which is the centre piece of a hoard found near Beadle in North Yorkshire. A portion of the ...

A recent discovery in Germany has unearthed a Viking Age hoard containing nearly 200 artifacts, including a pendant that could be either an early Christian cross or an unfinished Thor’s hammer. The ...

The Galloway Hoard is one of the most significant—and mysterious—Viking-era treasures ever to emerge in Scotland. Discovered buried in 2014 in Balmaghie by retiree Derek McLennan using a metal ...

Researchers recently deciphered runic inscriptions on a 1,100-year-old silver arm ring from the Galloway Hoard in Scotland, revealing that the treasure may have been owned collectively by a community ...

The Vikings were crazy for silver. It was a hallmark of wealth, hoarded in the form of cigar-shaped ingots and woven into intricate neck-rings. The problem was that scarcely any silver was mined in ...

The 1,000-year-old cahce contained more than 200 artifacts. In Germany, a metal detectorist has unearthed a 1,000-year-old Viking hoard which contains more than 200 artifacts, including what may be ...

The discovery recontextualizes what many people believe about Vikings. New research into a Viking silver hoard discovered by metal detectorists in England over a decade ago has revealed surprising ...

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LONDON (AP) — Two amateur British treasure-hunters were sentenced Friday to long prison terms for stealing a hoard of 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon coins and jewelry valued at millions of pounds (dollars ...

A metal detectorist has discovered up to15,000 Roman coins, which could be the biggest hoard ever discovered in Wales. David ...