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Man’s metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping, leading to record-breaking trove of ancient Roman coins

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An amateur archaeologist who discovered several Roman silver coins in a field in western Germany realized he had stumbled upon something bigger when his metal detector kept beeping. Oliver Riedl called the authorities for help, and a group of experts who began digging immediately discovered a total of 934 Roman silver denarii. It is the…

Famed century-old ship dubbed “Sava’s Titanic” emerges in Serbia as Europe’s rivers run dry

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The wreck of a steam tugboat dating from the early 1900s is the latest relic to emerge from shrinking waters in Serbia as Europe’s rivers run dry, with the continent engulfed in prolonged, extreme heat and drought. The rusting hull — once a famed vessel known as the Slovenian — surfaced earlier this month from…