Science | best of 2023 12 of the Year's Most Fascinating Discoveries Yes, one involves a metal detector By Newser Editors Posted Dec 22, 2023 9:44 AM CST Updated Dec 22, 2023 12:00 PM CST Copied (Getty Images / Vadym Plysiuk) If buried treasure is unearthed anywhere, or a shipwreck is discovered, rest assured: We're on it. We have yet to meet an incredible find that didn't wow us, and these 12 are among the year's most-read: Florida Road Workers Make 'Incredible' Find Under Highway Archaeologists Find Evidence of Mass Execution of Nazis MSU Makes Archaeological Find on Its Own Campus Buried Treasure's Significance Is 'Hard to Comprehend' Guy With Metal Detector Makes 'Find of the Century' Dad, Daughter Discover Shipwreck While Fishing 'Super-Rare' Bug Found at Walmart Stuns Experts On Easter Island, a Sight Unseen for Centuries Emerges Webb Telescope Makes 'Baffling' Discovery Gold-Covered Mummy Was Undisturbed for 4.3K Years With Locks of Hair, Scientists Solve a Beethoven Mystery Veteran Fossil Hunter, Age 9, Makes a Rare Find (Read about more discoveries here.) Read These Next Hundreds of South Koreans were detained at a Georgia factory site. The story of a failed secret SEAL mission in North Korea. How you make it up the mountain can earn you cheers, or jeers. Residents of famed nudist ranch are suing property owners. Report an error