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
Barry G. Smith of Germantown, Tennessee, pulled a 2.29-carat yellow diamond out of the dirt at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, a find so striking that the park's own facility supervisor said he was "dumbfounded." Smith made the discovery on August 16 while on a family outing with his wife and two granddaughters, […] The post Tennessee grandfather finds 2.29-carat yellow diamond at Arkansas state park after just 30 minutes of searching appeared first on American Almanac .
Barry G. Smith of Germantown, Tennessee, pulled a 2.29-carat yellow diamond out of the dirt at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, a find so striking that the park's own facility supervisor said he was "dumbfounded." Smith made the discovery on August 16 while on a family outing with his wife and two granddaughters, Sage and Juniper. The group rented a wagon and a basic search kit from the park, headed to the East Drain section of the 37-acre diamond field, and started sifting. Roughly thirty minutes later, Smith spotted something glimmering in the soil. He picked it up, thought it might be mica, and dropped it in his shirt pocket. It was not mica. Staff at the park's Diamond Discovery Center inspected the stone and confirmed…Open
Meet the Camarat 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters. This remarkably preserved 16th-century merchant vessel sat undisturbed off the coast of St. Tropez for 500 years before the French Navy stumbled onto it by accident during a routine sonar mission. On this episode of “Hot Take with Jesse Weber,” we take a deeper dive into one of the most extraordinary underwater discoveries in years and bring in Dr. Tracy Fanara to help unravel the mysteries still surrounding it.
Construction workers uncovered gold estimated to be worth more than $10 million when renovating a building at the site of a former brewery in Dendermonde, Belgium. #cnn #news #gold
