// Several amateurs using metal detectors have found some quite unusual Roman artifacts, such as a penis-shaped animal bone, a silver and gold brooch of a leaping dolphin and what it seems to be a bust of a male lover of a Roman emperor. The ...

// // // ]]> Archeologists have discovered a poolside Roman mosaic hidden under a farmer’s field in Turkey, revealing the vast influence of the Roman Empire at its peak. It is believed that the beautiful mosaic decorated the floor of a 25-foot ...

Reg Mead and Richard Miles, two amateur treasure hunters, managed to uncover after 30 years of search, the biggest ever hoard of Iron Age silver and gold coins in the UK, worth $15 million. Using the ‘deepseeker’, a high powered metal detector, they managed ...

Who would have known that Syria hid under its deserts a mystery city? Archeologists have found near the ancient monastery of Deir Mar Musa, 50 miles north of Damascus, fragments of stone tools, stone lines and circles on the ground, and even tombs. Unfortunately ...