A hobbyist with a metal detector stumbled onto thousands of silver coins buried in the Finnish countryside for roughly a thousand years, a find experts are calling the largest Late Iron Age coin cache ever discovered in Finland. Kalle Lappinen was sweeping a field near Sysmä, a quiet town in southern Finland, on September 3 […] The post Amateur archaeologist unearths Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard with a metal detector appeared first on American Almanac .
A hobbyist with a metal detector stumbled onto thousands of silver coins buried in the Finnish countryside for roughly a thousand years, a find experts are calling the largest Late Iron Age coin cache ever discovered in Finland. Kalle Lappinen was sweeping a field near Sysmä, a quiet town in southern Finland, on September 3 when his detector signaled something beneath the soil. What he found was no stray relic. Buried about 18 inches underground, packed inside birch bark containers wedged between stones, lay a trove of Viking Age silver that professional archaeologists would spend the next day pulling from the earth, ABC News reported . By September 4, the retrieval team from Lahti Museums had recovered almost 10 pounds of silver from…Open
A man in northern Denmark struck something strange with his garden fork while preparing ground for a new patio, and pulled up 41 pounds of Viking-age silver, the biggest such haul ever found in the country. The unnamed homeowner in Rebild, a small town in northern Jutland, had planned a routine afternoon of yard work. […] The post Danish homeowner digging a patio unearths the country's largest Viking silver hoard appeared first on American Almanac .
A man in northern Denmark struck something strange with his garden fork while preparing ground for a new patio, and pulled up 41 pounds of Viking-age silver, the biggest such haul ever found in the country. The unnamed homeowner in Rebild, a small town in northern Jutland, had planned a routine afternoon of yard work. He was clearing grass, stones, and gravel to lay a tiled terrace. Half an hour in, his fork hit something that made an unusual sound. He assumed it was old iron or fencing wire. It was not. When he dropped to his knees and started digging with his hands, he began pulling metal objects from the soil one after another. Within minutes he realized he was holding jewelry, coins, and silver bars, roughly 700 objects and fragments…Open
Greenlandic citizens protest forced sterilization Reported by: Cherry Meigh TimbolNews Content Editor Published August 31, 2026 Greenland is moving to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine one of the darkest chapters in its modern [...]
A historian's new book identifies a remote Iron Age hillfort in North Devon as the long-sought site of the Battle of Cynuit, where Anglo-Saxon forces routed a Viking invasion force and helped save the kingdom of Wessex. Castle Hill, a crumbling earthwork near the village of Beaford in North Devon, England, has stood quietly for […] The post Researchers may have found the Devon hillfort where Alfred the Great's men crushed a Viking army in 878 AD appeared first on American Almanac .
A historian's new book identifies a remote Iron Age hillfort in North Devon as the long-sought site of the Battle of Cynuit, where Anglo-Saxon forces routed a Viking invasion force and helped save the kingdom of Wessex. Castle Hill, a crumbling earthwork near the village of Beaford in North Devon, England, has stood quietly for centuries, ancient ramparts of earth and stone overlooking a rural landscape most people drive past without a second thought. Now researcher Nick Arnold and historian Paul Harper say the site is the strongest candidate ever put forward for one of the most consequential battles in English history: the 878 AD clash at Cynuit, where a Devon militia loyal to King Alfred the Great destroyed a Viking army and killed its…Open
Rachel Maddow looks at how a Trump-aligned Texas oil company appears to be trying to worm its way into drilling in Greenland, provoking a threatening response not only from Greenland residents and officials, but potentially from NATO ally Denmark.
