In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2013 photo, a gilt-brass and enamel clock-watch with alarm and calendar made by Gaultier Ferlite is seen on display in an exhibition 'The Cheapside Hoard: London's Lost Jewels' ...

LONDON - Diamonds may be forever, but a lot of jewelry doesn't survive through the centuries. Rings and bracelets get broken up for re-use, pearls decay, gold is melted down. That explains the ...

It's the stuff daydreams are made of: Finding unexpected treasure in an unexpected place, as happened to some London construction workers who stumbled on one of the most spectacular treasures ever, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Experts may be one tiny step closer to unravelling the mystery of who buried hundreds of dazzling jewels under a London neighbourhood during a turbulent period in English history ...

Since it was first built early in the 16th century, the chapel of London’s Mercers’ guild has been twice destroyed—once by the Great Fire of 1666, again by Hitler’s blitzes in 1941. This year workmen ...

As a child growing up enamored of history, my earliest fantasy was what it would be like to find undiscovered treasure. When I was thirteen, living in the Roman city of Bath, my dream came true. My ...

Beneath the U.K. capital, archaeologists are finding remnants of the city’s luxurious past including a long-lost Tudor pleasure palace and a trove of 17th-century gold and jewels. Pearl-and-gold cage ...

It's June 1912. A pair of workmen deposit a heavy ball of clay in the antiques shop of George Fabian Lawrence, or ‘Stony Jack’ as he's better known. As Lawrence picks through the mud, a speck of gold ...