Archaeologists are uncovering the roots of the industrial revolution in Los Angeles, California, at the site of Chapman’s Mill and the San Gabriel Mission. The artifacts include a brass religious medallion, a nineteenth-century Spanish coin, local and imported pottery, beads, and plenty of food remains. More than 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a backyard […]

A Florida-based deep-sea salvage company has been ordered by the 11th U.S. circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to return nearly 600,000 gold and silver coins to Spain. The coins were recovered from the ocean’s floor off the coast of Spain in 2007. A large piece of a shipwreck washed ashore on a Lake Michigan beach. […]