"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Whether stashed by Captain Kidd or as a plot point in The Goonies, buried treasure has a certain allure ...

I selected the best metal detectors after trying a handful of options that came recommended to me by Jeff Lubbert, an expert detectorist who has been tracking down treasures and finding lost rings ...

Metal detecting is getting popular fast in Santa Clarita Valley. Once seen as an old hobby, it’s now modern, exciting, and tech-friendly. More people are buying metal detectors and heading outside.

Armed with metal detectors, curious explorers are finding historical objects every day. For example, Bob Podhrasky, COO, senior vice president, and director of engineering at metal detector ...

Is it time to give that much-maligned hobby, metal detecting, its due? Terry Herbert, 55, a jobless man on welfare, used his metal detector on a Staffordshire field to find a valuable hoard of ancient ...

Elvis Presley recorded the song “Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers” in 1963. While Bill Tester can’t vouch for the latter portion of the phrase, the 74-year-old Huntington native has filled two albums ...

Hobby crafts are growing in popularity. Sometimes they include anvils and fire. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from Brookfield and Wolcott, Conn. The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating ...

A trove of gold and silver artifacts worth an estimated $1.6 million was discovered in Staffordshire, England, by a hobbyist with a store-bought metal detector, according to an announcement made ...