An artifact that originally belonged to President George Washington recently landed in the hands of a Virginia history enthusiast – and then a museum – all thanks to Goodwill. The piece is currently ...

High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of wooden stakes, stone fragments, and ancient debris that had not seen daylight ...

The attraction to the hobby of looking for American Indian artifacts, says Terry Goette, is the thrill of the find. "It's just something about picking something up that nobody has touched in a ...

During a recent family outing to Tel Azekah in Israel, 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan strolled along a path with her family. She picked up a stone which turned out to be an ancient scarab amulet dating back ...

A metal detectorist scanning a forest in Poland heard his machine discovering something in the soil — then made a monumental find. Romuald Ościak, a member of the Historical and Ethnographic ...

NEW YORK — A metal detectorist in eastern Poland recently uncovered a religious artifact that experts believe dates back hundreds of years. Experts said the cross icon is likely a relic of the ...

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DUDLEY, Mo. -- When Leslie "Allen" Boyer looks for stone Indian artifacts, the stones usually don't look back. But there are always exceptions. "I was out surface hunting, walking around and looking ...

A rare stone artifact dating to the 10th-century BCE was found in Jerusalem by a 10-year-old volunteer. A Russian tourist volunteering for Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Sifting Project unearthed the small, ...