A 2,221-year-old silver coin dug up as part of a hoard is the oldest piece of Roman money ever found in Britain. Dating from 211 BC and found near the Leicestershire village of Hallaton, the coin was uncovered with 5,000 other coins, a helmet and a decorated bowl. Unearthed in 2000 by a metal detectorist, staff at the nearby Harborough Museum have only just realised its significance. (more…)
A 1925 Bugatti Type 22 Brescia, that had been salvaged after spending nearly 7 decades underwater, sold well above the estimate at an auction in Paris this past week. The antique auto was exhumed from its watery grave at the bottom of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland in July of last year. (more…)
Panagyurishte is a town in Pazardzhik Province, western Bulgaria. On the morning of December 8, 1949, three brothers, Pavel, Petko, and Michail Deikovi, were working together at the region of “Merul” tile factory near Panagyurishte. They were processing a new layer of clay, when the brothers noticed shiny and glossy objects in the ground. They immediately reported the discovery to city authorities and the Panagyurishte treasure was found. (more…)
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A U.S. underwater archaeology team announced Thursday it has likely discovered the shattered remnants of a ship once captained by the notorious buccaneer William Kidd off a tiny Dominican Republic island. (more…)
The Amber Room of the Tsars – one of the greatest missing treasures of WW2 that was looted by the Nazis during their invasion of the Soviet Union – may have been found. A Russian treasure hunter is currently excavating in the enclave of Kaliningrad where he has discovered a World War II era bunker that the local German high command used in the battle for the city in 1945. If Sergei Trifonov is correct then he has solved one of the greatest riddles left over from the war – and will make himself into a multi-millionaire. (more…)
The government of Peru announced it will join the dispute between US treasure-hunting company Odyssey Marine Exploration and Spanish authorities. The dispute involves 500 million US dollars in gold and silver coins rescued from a Spanish galleon off the coast of Portugal. Bolivia has also approached the Spanish government on the issue. (more…)
TAMPA – A higher federal court will now hear the legal dispute over just who owns the richest sunken treasure ever found, either Tampa’s Odyssey Marine, which found the treasure, or Spain, which claims it as a historic artifact. In summer 2007, Odyssey located more than half a billion dollars in gold and silver coins on the floor of the Atlantic in a wreck ultimately identified, most likely, as the Mercedes warship, carrying freight from South America to Spain in the 18th century. (more…)
An archaeologist at the University of Liverpool is examining more than 1,000 Roman silver coins from museums around the world in order to establish their true economic value. Dr Matthew Ponting, from the University’s School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, is investigating the chemical composition of the coins to further understanding of how and where they were made. Dr Ponting believes that analysis of the coins will also shed more light on the political and economic issues of the Roman Empire. (more…)
This paper provides an overview of simulation of 3D sonar images and assessment of 3D image formation and shape recognition algorithms. Whitepaper.pdf