A golden river of dried mud glimmers in this satellite photo taken Oct. 4 by the Landsat 9 satellite. The potentially toxic trail was left behind after a dam at a diamond mine in Jagesrfontein, South Africa collapsed and released a torrent of mining waste. (Image credit: Lauren Dauphin/NASA Earth Observatory/Landsat) (opens in new tab) […]
Wisdom, as Bob Marley put it, is better than gold. From next month however, the precious metal is central to a major new historical exhibition in Cambridge using loaned artefacts telling the story of an ancient civilization little known beyond Kazakhstan. Golden objects unearthed from ancient burial mounds built by the Saka warrior people of […]
Saatchi Gallery to host exhibition of 150 artefacts before their permanent return to Egypt The largest number of King Tutankhamun treasures ever to leave Egypt are heading to London for an exhibition which organisers say will never happen again. It was announced on Thursday that the Saatchi Gallery in London will be the only UK venue for a world […]
5th-6th century AD, found at remains of early Byzantine fortress at Hajdučka vodenica archaeological site, near Tekija on the Danube river, eastern Serbia. These coins were found inside ceramic pot, together with beam scale and set of weights. Coins were probably hidden by moneychanger, who put them aside probably during some of the numerous barbarian […]
