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| Source: See LiveScience link below. |
Two amateur divers swimming along the Spanish coast have discovered a huge hoard of 1,500-year-old gold coins, one of the largest on record dating to the Roman Empire.
The divers, brothers-in-law Luis Lens Pardo and César Gimeno Alcalá, discovered the gold stash while vacationing with their families in Xàbia, a coastal Mediterranean town and tourist hotspot. The duo rented snorkeling equipment so they could go freediving with the goal of picking up trash to beautify the area, but they found something far richer when Lens Pardo noticed the glimmer of a coin at the bottom of Portitxol Bay on Aug. 23, El Pais reported...
Here is the link for more about that.
Amateur freedivers find gold treasure dating to the fall of the Roman Empire | Live Science
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The Portable Antiquities Schene of the British Museum said the Covid lockdown resulted in unexpected discoveries.63 gold coins evidently deposited around 1540 were found by a family while weeding their property.
50 South African 1 oz. gold Kruggerand coins minted in the 1970s were found.
Another find was a 13th century medieval seal matrix.
Ian Richardson, treasure registrar at the British Museum, said: "People during lockdown have been spending more time at home and maybe turning to pursuits that they hadn't engaged with so much before...
Lockdown finds: Gold coins among garden finds - BBC News
I doesn't seem to me that 1970s Krugerrands should fit under the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but maybe they do.
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I was channel surfing and noticed that Oak Island now has a group of archaeologists working on the island. The scientific perspective and discussion provided a welcome relief and made the show bearable during the segments that were uninterrupted by the ex-spurts.
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On Nov. 17, 1978...
Back in Jonestown, Jones commanded everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a “revolutionary act.” The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cyanide, sedatives and powdered fruit juice into children’s throats. Adults then lined up to drink the poison-laced concoction while armed guards surrounded the pavilion.
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更好地构建
Build back better in Chinese. It actually sounds better in Mandarin than English.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
With summer long over, this summer provided no good beach metal detecting. It was a summer of mostly southeast winds and building beaches. You had to hunt long to find very the few spots that provided a few small openings.
Sam and Victor are out there but will head north in the Atlantic.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
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