Gold coins, gems and historic artifacts that were lost at sea have captured the imagination of treasure hunters for centuries. Source: Mel Fisher’s Treasures A sample of gold bars, coins…

LEADVILLE, Colo. — The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum has had a busy summer, preparing its newest exhibit for the public. “It’s called Leadville Thirst for Gold and…

For hundreds of years, the Sanxingdui culture flourished in what is now southwest China, producing ornate bronze masks and precious wares before vanishing abruptly around 1100 or 1200 B.C.E. Believed to…

The first gold discoveries in Colorado were placer gold deposits. Cache Creek Park, a few miles west of the small town of Granite in northern Chaffee County, was one of…

The decade-long search for Forrest Fenn’s treasure ended two years ago, but the hunt for answers has not. Although details have slowly surfaced since Jack Stuef located the gold-filled chest,…

  Blackbeard Buries His Treasure by Howard Pyle. This was originally published in Pyle, Howard (August–September 1887) Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The image of pirates as one-eyed, one-legged, bloodthirsty plunderers…

The rocks around 44-year old Bernth Engstrom glisten with gold. He has made this century’s discovery in Sweden and started a gold rush unprecedented in Wermland (Midwestern Sweden). Now people…

There’s gold in them hills again in California, according to local gold hunters who have been stunned by their recent finds in the Sierra Nevada foothills. “It’s going to get…

The Wickham Market Treasure Trove is a trove of 840 Iron Age gold staters discovered in March 2008 by auto technician Michael Dark using a metal detector in a field…