Coin weights, also known as coin scales or monetary weights, have been an essential tool in trade and commerce for millennia. Their primary function was to ensure that coins contained the precise amount of metal—usually gold or silver—that their face value claimed.
As used by archaeologist Emma Culligan on The Curse of Oak Island to look at artifacts as they are found.
The SKYSCAN 1273 sets a new standard for non-destructive testing (NDT) with benchtop instruments, providing a performance previously only achieved by floor standing systems.
On Oak Island they continue to find ancient barrel staves from the 1600 – 1700s.
Barrel staves are an essential component in the construction of barrels, which have been used for centuries to store and transport various liquids, most notably alcoholic beverages like wine, whiskey, and beer. The staves are the individual wooden pieces that make up the sides of a barrel,
Maya Exploration Center Director Dr. Ed Barnhart has almost three decades of experience as an archaeologist, an explorer and an instructor.
Dr. Edwin Barnhart is the director of the Maya Exploration Center. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has over 20 years of experience in North, Central, and South America as an archaeologist, explorer, and instructor. In 1994, Professor Barnhart discovered the ancient city of Maax Na (Spider-Monkey House), a major center of the Classic Maya period in northwestern Belize.
Digging for treasure.
As Rick remembers it, he was 11 years old when he discovered the classic story of buried treasure inside a 1965 copy of Reader’s Digest he’d checked out from the school library. According to the article, a century’s worth of treasure hunters had tried and failed to excavate a mysterious depression on Oak Island rumored to be hiding something of great significance.
