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
Germany's Alexander Zverev defeated America's Ben Shelton in four sets Sunday to win the U.S. Open, extending a two-decade drought since an American man last hoisted the trophy in Queens. Zverev, 29, dismantled Shelton 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, collecting $5.5 million in prize money and a Tiffany & […] The post Alexander Zverev claims second Grand Slam title, ending American hopes at U.S. Open appeared first on American Almanac .
Germany's Alexander Zverev defeated America's Ben Shelton in four sets Sunday to win the U.S. Open, extending a two-decade drought since an American man last hoisted the trophy in Queens. Zverev, 29, dismantled Shelton 6-3, 7-6, 5-7, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, collecting $5.5 million in prize money and a Tiffany & Co. trophy presented by American tennis great Jimmy Connors. The win gave Zverev his second Grand Slam title, following his French Open victory in June, and capped a dominant run through the draw in which he did not drop a set after the second round. For Shelton, 23 and appearing in his first Grand Slam final, the loss stung, but the University of Florida product handled it with uncommon grace. No American man has…Open
Hundreds of organizations have urged Congress to pass the BUILD America 250 Act, including the American Public Transportation Administration, American Trucking Associations, and the American Council of Engineering Companies
Time collapses for Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, 67, a native New Yorker and now a chaplain for the New York City Fire Department, as he looks back to Sept. 11, 2001, and the hours he spent at Ground Zero that day.
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David Petraeus was at a rail station when a drone hit. Another train, with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and other dignitaries, had just left, Ukrainian officials said.