There’s something undeniably thrilling about the hunt for hidden treasures beneath our feet. From coins with centuries of history to curious everyday relics lost to time, metal detecting captures the ...

I feel like every child dreams of uncovering buried treasure at some point in their lives. For me, as a child who spent a lot of time in Florida growing up, I was always digging for pirate booty.

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector, a discovery archaeologists said on Thursday was Norway’s “gold find of the ...

A few days before Christmas several years ago, David Moss and Tom Taylor headed out with the metal detectors to do some exploring in Wales. The duo was in a field in Caerhun Community, Conwy near a ...

As Christina McCree turns the pages of a book that documents her successful metal detecting searches over the years, she can’t help but smile. Her “Book of Smiles” holds a closeup photograph of each ...

Metal detecting often reveals far more than expected. This film from Unearthed UK showcases curious finds hidden just beneath ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) - They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and that rings true for a couple who started a metal detecting non profit 10 years ago. Casey and Mindy Oberreuter created ...

(RNS) — Archaeologists hope to capitalize on a local fad for metal detecting to examine pilgrimage and personal piety in areas where the written record is thin. (RNS) — Much has been written about ...

Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...

A metal detectorist has found an Anglo-Saxon gold pyramid worth £20,000. Fraser Bailey found the amazing piece in a field near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. He knew its value because there was another ...

A man using a metal detector found a box of explosives buried in a forest on the North Shore of Massachusetts on Thursday, authorities said. Officers were called to a state-owned forest in Rowley near ...