Join Heath Jones from the History Seekers as he metal detects a forgotten 1800s wagon road deep in the woods of Alabama. Armed with his Minelab Equinox 800, he unearths Civil War-era relics, a silver ...

Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

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 ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...

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 ...

Father-and-son duo Sławomir and Szymon Milewski discovered the coins while searching for an ancient road. Polish “Husaria” Treasure Hunters Association While wandering a Polish forest, a ...

A plumber in the United Kingdom unwittingly discovered ancient treasure while walking through a pasture on a summer's day – and now he's auctioning it off. David Dunn, a plumber from Sapcote, ...

Some Gold Coast metal detectorists say they are making $1,000 a month from treasures found on beaches eroded by storms.