Can't find Artifacts in Modern Era

[imaloony]

I bought an explorer and had him go to a University to find an artifact. But I don't see any symbol on the map that denotes where he has to dig for an artifact. What am I supposed to be looking for?

[DadouXIII]

You need to send your explorer into a university/museum that you or another nation has built.
When you have the explorer selected, look for the symbol of a jar+magnifying glass.
That will let your explorer "study" the continent the university/museum is on, and only THEN will the artifacts appear, but only on that continent!

[skylark2011]

Further to DadouXII's answer, after researching at a museum/university then a shovel icon will appear on the map indicating where to dig. Send your explorer to this site select the shovel (dig) symbol in the explorer options.

[Luckiernut]

To add to this it can only be done once so if you or another civ has already explored then it’s not possible to do it again

[imaloony]

Originally posted by DadouXIII:

You need to send your explorer into a university/museum that you or another nation has built.
When you have the explorer selected, look for the symbol of a jar+magnifying glass.
That will let your explorer "study" the continent the university/museum is on, and only THEN will the artifacts appear, but only on that continent!

So I did that. I sent my explorer to a University, had him study, and... the map looked the same. I still had the icons for him to study at other Universities on the continent, but I didn't see any other icon appear (the "shovel" that skylark mentioned didn't appear).

I'm pretty confident none of the AI beat me to it. The Modern era just started, I have a near monopoly on this continent, I have WAY more culture than anyone else, and I blitzed Natural History (or whatever the Civic is called). Maybe it was a glitch? I'll reload an earlier autosave and see if anything's different.

EDIT: Nope. Still no shovel icon. There were a couple of islands within the continent that I didn't have full vision on so I got open borders and went to explore. Still nothing. No shovel icon at all. I guess it's possible that while I was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around trying to get troops down there the AI scooped it up, but it still feels unlikely. I had vision on like 95% of the continent, I'm confident I got the civic and the Explorer first, so it feels very unlikely that it just happened to spawn on one of the tiles I couldn't see and the AI grabbed it that fast.