Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. He ...

Like prospectors sifting for gold, book dealers using electronic scanners comb through local library book sales for volumes to resell for profit on the Internet. Worried that average library patrons ...

While visiting family in Georgia, I decided to spend the morning digging at an old bottle dump I had recently found. With ...

He thinks Staten Island is treasure island. At 6 a.m. this past Saturday, David Hager, 58, and wife Michelle, 51, and two sons, Tyler and Ryan, 21 and 17, started digging in a small park in the ...

SPRING ARBOR, MI — When Brhett Butler graduated from Concord High School in 1997, he needed to do something with his stuff. He had grown up digging for treasure left by his grandparents. So, he buried ...

An art dealer hid a treasure chest filled with gold and gems somewhere in the Rocky Mountains for the world to find. A map and poem were the only clues. For a decade, thousands searched. Five people ...