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2 Tales of treasure found from the BBC today.
#1) a hoard of Roman coins unearthed by archeologists in Colchester
#2) Hoard of gold coins hidden from Nazis found in Hackney - This, I suspect, is a common tale, but more on that in a separate post.
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Now I've linked to RadioLab before, I'm sure I have, and really, this link doesn't belong here.
It's completely irrelevant.
Or is it? Maybe give it a listen - RadioLab on our sense of direction: Lost & Found
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When Western Illinois University's University Television (UTV) Associate Director Roger Kent looked a bit closer at a picture that had been hanging in his office for a few years, he noticed what looked like a signature belonging to the nation's 16th president. Curiosity got the better of him, so he contacted a Lincoln authority: the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield."
Of course it's real, otherwise I wouldn't be linking to it. Read more at Science Daily. Hidden in plain sight...
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Man goes to dig up garden. He's expanding his pond. And he finds around 200 pieces of medieval jewelry, brooches and rings encrusted with pearls and inset with gems.
"Austria’s department in charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments."
Read more here: Gizmodo & CBC.
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A man uses an old metal cup given to him by his grandfather for target practice. Man later has cup appraised, and discovers that it's made of solid gold, over 2300 years old, with an appraised value of over a quarter of a million dollars. Man sells cup.
Link: Achaemenid Cup