Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

Treasure hunting is not unlike finding a stud in your walls. Rather than a stud finder, you just need a metal detector. Whereas finding treasure once meant locating an “X” on an ancient map, today’s ...

Join me as I take the TX-850 metal detector out for its first hunt! Will we strike silver, gold, or just bottle caps? Watch the full adventure to see what treasures (or trash) we dig up. Perfect for ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

Simon Weller, his nine-year-old daughter and 79-year-old dad made the find while metal detecting. Funeral director Jason Price "deceived thousands" of people by planting the Leasingham horse brooch.

In this short but exciting adventure, our intern Patrick scores big on his first serious metal detecting trip - uncovering a real 1800s silver coin! Using the Minelab Equinox 700, he explores two old ...

A County Durham metal detectorist has uncovered a rare medieval silver coin now confirmed as a nationally important.

There's often history just beneath your feet, waiting to be discovered. A long-forgotten button, an antique coin, or even a remnant from one of the wars that shaped our country. Trying to unearth ...

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

An adrenaline junkie needs a farmland fix. Metal detector in hand, Andy Thaxton marches the rows and pasture of countless acres, hunting coins, keys, bullets, and bells—the final testament of ...