Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research into a Viking silver hoard discovered by metal detectorists in England over a decade ago has revealed surprising ties ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Natalie McCaul, curator of archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum in York, looks at a silver Viking neck ring which is the centre ...

Hidden in a small city museum in southeastern Spain lies a Bronze Age hoard that long puzzled archaeologists. The Treasure of ...

Museum staff conserving a Bronze Age hoard have described the “magical” moment the “silvery surface” of its contents emerged from beneath thousands of years of dirt and corrosion. The Peebles Hoard, ...

Six years later, I got the chance to analyse the Bedale hoard, as it is now known, for its isotopes and trace elements. Alongside the neck-ring and a gold Anglo-Saxon sword pommel (probably acquired ...

A German metal detectorist located a massive Roman silver hoard in 2017, but for the last eight years, he’s kept it hidden from government officials. Made public this year, the hoard was illegally ...