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Last week’s discovery of the ancient village, buried in the fens for 3,000 years, adds to the rich array of archaeological finds across the UK Britain’s “Pompeii of the Fens” is an extraordinary window into the Bronze Age – and just one of many spectacular finds in these ancient isles. The well-preserved village near Peterborough had been hidden for 3,000 years until it was ­uncovered by archeologists . News last week of its discovery quickly prompted comparisons with the  ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii, the Sunday People reports. But, as TV archaeologist Neil Oliver says, precious ­relics of the past have been dug up plenty of times before Some are shown on these pages – and there are probably many more waiting to be found. Neil, 48, well known as a ­presenter of of BBC1 series Coast and various historical documentaries, said: “The whole landscape is a treasure trove of undiscovered stuff. Discovery: A pot found in the Bronze Age settlement “It contains everything ...

Two amateur divers swimming along the Spanish coast have discovered a huge hoard of 1,500-year-old gold coins, one of the largest on record dating to the Roman Empire. The divers , brothers-in-law Luis Lens Pardo and César Gimeno Alcalá, discovered the gold stash while vacationing with their families in Xàbia, a coastal Mediterranean town and tourist hotspot. The duo rented snorkeling equipment so they could go freediving with the goal of picking up trash to beautify the area, but they found something far richer when Lens Pardo noticed the glimmer of a coin at the bottom of Portitxol Bay on Aug. 23, El País reported .  When he went to investigate, he found that the coin "was in a small hole, like a bottleneck," Lens Pardo told El País in Spanish. After cleaning the coin, Lens Pardo saw that it had "an ancient image, like a Greek or Roman face." Intrigued, Lens Pardo and Gimeno Alcalá returned, freediving to the hole with a Swiss Army...