The largest hoard of gold coins from the British Iron Age, consisting of 933 pre-Roman coins, has been discovered in Essex.

Eddie Lipsman could barely contain his metal detector when he passed by a large stone in the Sussita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region. “The device went crazy, I couldn’t believe it,” he said, ...

Historians estimate the fleet lost as much as $400 million in gold, silver, and jewels, making it one of the largest maritime disasters - and treasure troves - in the Americas.

Gold prices are soaring, reaching historic highs as China announces the discovery of its largest gold deposit, potentially holding over 1,000 metric tons. This "supergiant" find beneath the Wangu gold ...

A pair of Cornish miners unearthed a gold nugget so massive ... nugget is the Hand of Faith, found in Australia in 1980 by ...

The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa vanished ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1983, six thieves muscled their way into a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, expecting to find a large sum of foreign currency. They got much more than they bargained for — 26 ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...

The most expensive coin collection ever assembled numbers 15,000 coins—it’s so large and historically thorough that it’s being sold in a series of 15 auctions set to spread out over three years.