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, ...

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 ...

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 ...