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In the mid-1980s, workers demolishing an abondoned ten-story building were astonished to uncover a mysterious concrete vault, which is believed to have been built on the orders of Al Capone. There was excited speculation about its contents ...and as a consequence probably the richest settlement in the whole New World ...
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The following is a reprint of "The Beale Papers" published in 1885 by J. B. Ward. They supposedly lead to a fortune buried in the Virginia hills near Bufords, in Bedford County, Virginia in 1819 and 1821, that has never been recovered |
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Like the pharaohs of Egypt, the emperors of China went to their graves accompanied by a magnificent panoply to serve them well in the afterlife.
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The French pirate Olivier de Vasseur was hanged on July, 1730. From the scaffold de Vasseur tossed a paper to the spectators, crying `Find my treasure who can!' The paper proved to be a chart, with directions how to find the treasure he had hidden in a cave in the Seychelles Islands ...
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As early as 1683 one area of what is now Costa Rican territory began to earn a reputation as a potential source of incalculable wealth, a reputation it still possesses today. The area is the Ile del Coco, an island 300 miles southwest of the Costa Rican mainland, in the Pacific. There, at least three, and possibly several more, pirate hoards are known to have been concealed.
Read more at http://www.cocosisland.thunting.com/ |
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The Search for the legendary riches of El Dorado must rank as one of the most famous treasure hunts of all time.
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For centuries, two of the most valuable commodities in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa were black and white 'gold' - slaves and ivory respectively. Both played a part in the primitive economy of Equatoria, the area broadly corresponding to today's southern Sudan. |
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Parts of the Amber Room was evacuated during World War II to Königsberg, and knowledge of its whereabouts was lost in the chaos at the end of the war. Its exact fate remains a mystery to this day, and the search for it has been one of the greatest treasure hunts of all time.
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When Captain William Kidd was hung in London on May the 23th in 1701 for piracy, he could hardly imagine which riddle he would leave to the following generations. Kidd was more than anybody else the stereotype of a classical pirate; the keeper of buried treasure.
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Mines which seem to be lost for ever often represent legends of hidden treasures. There was often a dying prospector who had a map of such a lost mine. The story of the Lost-Dutchman Mine fmatches this description like no other.
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As the Nazis invaded much of Europe in the years between 1938 and 1943, the generals looted occupied territories in a manner unprecedented in scale and organization. Public and private art galleries and museums in France, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere were stripped of their glories
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In the 17th century, Panama was packed with gold and silver that the Spanish had stolen from the Incas and as a consequence probably the richest settlement in the whole New World ...
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For more than
two centuries, the Spanish conquerors raided the New World and brought
back huge amounts of gold and silver to their home country. A treasure hunter by the name of Kip Wagner discovered some of it ...
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Just as recently as 1985, an American team working in Belize discovered a Mayan tomb datingfrom the time just before the Spanish Conquest. Not only did it contain gold items of apparently Aztec origin ...
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King Salomon's Gold Mines: In September 1895 the Rhodesia Ancient Ruins Ltd Company was given permission to dig for treasure in historic Zimbabwe ruins.
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King John became the only English monarch to have lost the country's crown jewels in their entirety, setting off a treasure hunt that has gone on, without result, for more than 700 years.
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Oak Island: A natural shaft or blowhole apparently once led downward to a large cavern some 200 feet below the surface. The shaft has been blocked by a series of platforms and partially flooded through side tunnels to create a virtually inaccessible 'money pit' that, according to local legend, contains a massive store of treasure.
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Rumors of treasure carried by the Armada began to grow even before the fleet was finally defeated. They were fed by a prize taken by Francis Drake. In the midst of battle, Drake took time off to escort the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora del Rosario ashore and its 55,000 ducats.
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Many people believe that Ohm Kruger was having a vast hoard of gold with him on the Presidential train, and that as he took less than 100,000 Pounds of the treasure out of the country, much must have gone astray.
This belief has opened the pockets of investors and inspired generations of treasure seekers.
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Renes-le-Chateau - a synonym for one of the greatest treasures ever. This famous treasure from ancient times comes out of a little church at Rennes-le-Chateau in the south of France.
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For years after the end of the Second World War, strong and persistent rumours connected Lake Toplitz, in the Austrian Alps, with Nazi treasure. Many individuals searched its chilly depths and one diver was killed. It was not until 1963 that a properly equipeped salvage operation was mounted
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The Tuamoto Tresure: A coral island. A pear-shaped pool. In its depths tons of gold, guarded by sea monsters, a giant octopus and a moroeel. And the way to the treasure is shown on the proverbial sea-stained chart. What more can you want?
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Salt mines seem to have been favourite hidding places for Nazi treasures, probably because they were spacious, dry and cool - as well as secret. Alt Aussee salt mine in the Austrian Tyrol, near Salzburg, was the principal depository of items destined for Adolf Hitler's great Linz collection
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The Lue map was created by an unnamed Nazi loyalist in the United States. Whose property was used as cache site for 100 tons of Gold Bullion that was smuggled into the US by Nazi Agents.
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You may not know it, but there are literally billions in gold, statues and other Asian looted treasures buried in hundreds of secret locations throughout the Philippines right now.
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