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The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea - but does it exist?
Early in 2012, a former swimming pool installer turned treasure hunter called Greg Brooks made global headlines when he announced the discovery of the SS Port Nicholson – a British freighter sunk off America in 1942, thought to be carrying £1.9bn of Russian platinum to pay for weaponry to help an increasingly desperate Stalin defeat Hitler.
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The Everlasting Forrest Fenn
Five years ago, a legendary art dealer filled a chest with treasure and hid it somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Why?
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Hook, Line, and Sinker
Maine treasure hunter Greg Brooks found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told investors. By Erick Trickey.
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Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Ancient Treasures
Scientists have recovered more than 50 artifacts from the site, including a bronze armrest that was possibly part of a throne. Over 2,000 years ago, the churning ocean below the cliffs of the Greek island Antikythera swallowed a massive ship loaded with a trove of luxuries—fine glassware, marble statues and, famously, a complex geared device thought to be the earliest computer.
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Italy to dig for ancient Roman treasure sought by Nazis
Italian archaeologists are to start excavations in search of a fabled cache of ancient Roman treasure which, according to legend, was buried alongside the Gothic king who sacked the city in the 5th century. The body of Alaric, king of the Visigoths, is said to have been buried at the confluence of two rivers in Cosenza, southern Italy, alongside tonnes of silver and gold, even the priceless Menorah that the Romans looted from the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.
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'Nazi gold train' investigators start surveying site in Poland
Engineers are set to start surveying a railway embankment in south-western Poland to establish how to dig out a “gold train” that is thought to have been buried there in the dying days of the Third Reich. The existence of a Nazi gold train, its whereabouts and its cargo – possibly stolen valuables and artworks – remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of the second world war.
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Colombia says treasure-laden San Jose galleon found
The wreck of the San Jose, a treasure-laden Spanish galleon sunk by the British 300 years ago, has been found off the Colombian city of Cartagena, President Juan Manuel Santos announces.
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Colombia Finds What May be World's Largest Sunken Treasure
Colombian President Juan Manual Santos hailed Saturday the discovery of a Spanish galleon that went down off the South American nation's coast more than 300 years ago with what may be the world's largest sunken treasure.…
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Where the Wild Books Are
Needle-in-a-haystack stories are the caffeine of collecting. Who hasn’t heard a tale of someone finding a rare toy at a garage sale, a dust-covered antique in an attic, or a priceless document hidden inside a beat-up picture frame? By Ben Marks
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On the Hunt for America’s Last Great Treasure
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he announced in 2010 that he had filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hidden it somewhere north of Santa Fe. By: Peter Frick-Wright. (Aug. 11)
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Inside the hunt for a million-dollar haul of ocean gold
Somewhere in the Atlantic, there’s a bounty of sunken gold worth millions of dollars. One team of treasure-hunters knows where it is – but can they get it to the surface?
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Emerald Sea
The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt. By Robert P. Baird.
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Fascinating Photos from the Secret Trash Museum in a New York Sanitation Garage
Garbage can be beautiful, if sorted correctly. By Dylan Thuras.
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One of the “most important” shipwreck treasures ever discovered
Preserved under a layer of [North Sea] sand, it offers a glimpse of 17th-century aristocratic life. By Annalee Newitz.
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For What It’s Worth
A Review of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” By Dan Cohen.
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Searching for Nazi Gold
The treasure hunters of Lower Silesia, Poland, believe that untold riches lie hidden in abandoned tunnels and bunkers. Could they be right?
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Miners find 500-year-old shipwreck filled with gold in desert
The wreckage of a 500-year-old Portuguese ship filled with gold coins has been unearthed by miners in a Namibian desert. The haul was discovered by diggers from diamond company De Beers and is believed to be worth upwards of £9m. Archaeologists have confirmed the wreckage is that of Bom Jesus, a ship which set sail from Lisbon in 1533 and disappeared with its entire crew on board near the Namibian diamond mining town of Oranjemund, on the way to India.
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Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland?
A museum in the country’s northeast says it has evidence of a hidden chamber inside a compound used by German forces, and that it may contain the treasure lost during World War II. By Rick Lyman. (June 10, 2016)
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The secret ‘midnight paintings’ of Dr Seuss – in pictures
Over a lifetime of sleepless nights, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr Seuss, created hundreds of artworks he called his ‘Midnight Paintings’. Although famous for his work as a children’s author, Geisel created topical and surrealist art, much of which was kept private until his death
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Maya 'snake dynasty' tomb uncovered holding body, treasure and hieroglyphs
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest royal tomb found in more than a century of work on Maya ruins in Belize, along with a puzzling set of hieroglyphic panels that provide clues to a “snake dynasty” that conquered many of its neighbors some 1,300 years ago. The tomb was unearthed at the ruins of Xunantunich, a city on the Mopan river in western Belize that served as a ceremonial center in the final centuries of Maya dominance around 600 to 800AD. Archaeologists found the chamber 16ft to 26ft below ground, where it had been hidden under more than a millennium of dirt and debris.
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