<h1>American siblings sweep the attic and accidentally find the "pirate treasure"</h1>
American brother and sister cleaning the attic accidentally found "pirate treasure"
According to usa today, people clean their rooms hoping to find something new, a pair of brothers and sisters in Tampa, Florida, recently found a mysterious box in their grandfather's attic, which contained an old map and photos, some ancient coins, and a person wearing a ring.
The brothers and sisters were taken to the antique shop to identify these magical items, which turned out to be genuine. The map in the box shows Tampa in the 1930s, the coins are identified as from 18th-century Portugal and Spain, and the ring on the dead corpse's hand looks like it was from the 18th century.
Older brother Mike Lopez said grandpa often ahead of them their great-grandfather had found the treasure of the legendary famous local pirate Jose Gaspar, but they never believed it. But the box in front of them made them believe in this fact, they believed that this hand was the hand of the pirate Gaspar, and said that they might always keep it.
Inside the box was an old map and photograph, some ancient coins, and a human hand wearing a ring.
The coins are identified as originating from Portugal and Spain in the 18th century.
The ring on the severed hand of the corpse also looks like it was from the 18th century or so.
<h1>Japan Akagiyama Buried Gold
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It is estimated that the gold in Japan's Akagi Mountains is as high as 4 million taels, equivalent to about 100 trillion yen. In 1987, Japan's budget was only 54 trillion yen. The storage of gold in Mount Akagi was about the first year of the 19th century. At that time, the Japanese government was controlled by the shogunate, and the World Bank had a gold and silver exchange ratio of 1:15, while Japan's gold was only 1:3, and the gold in Japan was exported in large quantities. The sharp loss of "hard currency" is not conducive to the storage of property and the strengthening of armaments by the authorities. The highest consul of the shogunate, Daimyo and Ichinohiro, personally controlled the entire gold storage plan of AkagiYama in the name of storing military expenses. Mount Akagi was chosen as a repository of gold for four reasons: 1. It was one of the fewer directly administered territories of the Tokugawa shogunate; 2. It belonged to the "base area" of the Tokugawa shogunate and was easy to keep secrets; 3. Advantages of geography. It is surrounded by rolling mountains, and is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack; 4. It was the last place where the entire line collapsed at the time of the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. In fact, at that time, the middle and lower samurai had already decided to overthrow the shogunate and implement reform.
On March 3, 1860, while Iei was secretly hiding gold, reformed samurai stabbed him to death outside The Sakurada Gate in Edo (present-day Tokyo). After his death, his subordinates Osumi Uenosuke and Hayashi University continued to carry out the burial plan. It was not until the end of the 1860s that the Fallen Shogunate won the victory and the Edo period, which belonged to the shogunate, came to an end. In July 1868, Emperor Meiji came to power and changed Edo to Tokyo, and the secret of Akayama Castle's gold collection became a mystery for a century. According to one of the executors of the gold burial plan, Yu Zongbei, in his book "Outline of the Reasons for The Burial of Ueno Kingdom", the total amount of gold buried as a military expense was somewhat impressive: 3.6 million taels of gold were shipped from Edo at that time; Nakajima, a servant of Uenosuke Kosu, said in his last words that he had also transported 240,000 taels of gold from the Imperial Gold Collection, plus other gold products, for a total of 4 million taels.
For more than 100 years, many treasure hunters have tried to become extremely rich overnight, and have come to Akagi Mountain to investigate. In the 37th year of Meiji, in 1905, the old woman of the island was fortunate enough to pick up several wooden bottles containing gold here; In the 37th year of Showa, 57 pieces of pure gold from ancient Japan were discovered during a road construction process. Confirming that these oval gold pieces are ancient coins, in fact, it is counted as three generations of the ancestors of the Mizuno family. The first person, Tomoyoshi Mizuno, was the righteous son of the Nakajima Tibetans, who told him before his death that Mount Akagi contained gold from the Tokugawa shogunate, and that the treasure point was related to an ancient well. As a result, Mizuno Tomoyoshi sprouted the belief in finding the gold of Akagi Mountain. He sold his property to raise 160,000 yen, began to investigate the treasure inside, he hired 70 or 80 people, transported 22 extremely heavy oil bottles, 30 bundles of heavy objects, and stayed here for nearly a year. They secretly divided their work, and many of the parties involved were death row prisoners of the shogunate, who were killed and killed after completion. Later, in May 1890, Mizuno tomoyoshi excavated a pure gold statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu from 30 meters north of a well, and speculated that the gold statue was buried as the patron saint of 4 million taels of gold. Soon, three copper plates were excavated under the foundation of a temple, which Mizuno Tomoyoshi believed to be an instruction map of the burial of the treasure, but the mystery they contained was not understood. In April of showa, Mizuno tomoyoshi discovered a giant artificial turtle. This is the harvest of the life that the first generation of Mizuno struggled for
The second generation of Aishaburo Mizuno, who succeeded his father, found a hole under the turtle head of the artificial turtle, and there were five-colored rock formations in the cave, which I don't know whether it was a natural layer or a man-made one. The third generation of Mizuno Tomoko further learned about the legend of the gold of Mount Akagi throughout the country, and he collaborated with people to use so-called special functions to find treasures. But the gains were minimal. The mizuno family's excavation tunnels on Mount Akagi are 22 kilometers long, but they still have not found a gold point. Challenging Mizuno's semi-blind mental and physical strength is the use of high technology. Someone used the latest metal detector to find metal reactions in the tunnel dug by the Mizuno family, and after analysis, it is extremely difficult to have natural metals in the formation here, which may be the location of Tokugawa's gold collection. However, due to its soft geology, it requires strong support to excavate, and can only be temporarily abandoned.
Since no gold has been excavated so far, it has been asserted that the deposit of gold may not be reliable. In fact, it is possible to hide gold. During the Tokugawa shogunate, the Edo Namboku Shrine had 10,000 taels of gold in small units, not to mention the shogunate; In addition, if the shogunate did not have strong financial resources, how could it maintain a huge military expenditure; So where do these assets go? You can't just fly away.
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Nazi treasures
In the Second World War, the Nazi fascists plundered the treasures of the invaded countries and were insatiably greedy. German Field Marshal Goering once instructed his subordinates: "As soon as you find something that may be needed by the German people, you must chase it like a police dog, and you must get it in your hands... Sent to Germany. ”
Every time Nazi Germany occupied a country, its treasurers immediately seized the country's gold and foreign securities, foreign exchange, etc. German fascists used various reasons to force the occupying power to pay a staggering amount of "occupation fees", "fines" and "tributes", and according to THE UNITED States survey, Germany squeezed a total of 164 billion marks (about 41 billion US dollars) from the occupied countries. In addition to plundering the financial property of other countries, Hitler's government also robbed countless precious cultural relics.
After conquering Poland, Goering ordered the looting of Polish antiquities. According to a secret German official report, by July 1944, the cultural relics transported from Western Europe to Germany were loaded with 137 railway wagons, counting 4174 boxes and 21903 pieces, and there were 10890 paintings alone, including many masterpieces. The Nazi leaders took the opportunity to expand the "private" collection, and after dividing up the coveted eight treasures, namely the Hitler Treasury, the Rommel Treasure, the Mussolini Donglin Treasure, the Catherine Treasure, the Fox Submarine Treasure, the South Taro Treasure, and the three treasures of Goering alone, according to his own estimation, were worth 50 million Deutsche Marks. His home is simply a "museum", with 5,000 world-famous paintings, 160,000 treasures inlaid with treasures, and more than 2,400 pieces of ancient precious furniture, of which 1,500 belong to the world's treasures.
On 20 April 1945, Goering left Hitler and sped off in his armored Messerschmidt car to Bavaria, where he thought it was safe, followed by a convoy of trucks filled with treasure. Among them, the last batch was intercepted by American troops during the transport, including 27 boxes of extinct books, 4 boxes of precious glassware, 8 boxes of gold and silverware, priceless oriental carpets, etc. After the demise of Nazi fascism, people saw only a very small part, where was the nazi treasure of a large amount of wealth? No one knows.
<h1>A diamond treasure in Morfreesboro, Arkansas, USA</h1>
Before you want to save up 3 months' salary for an engagement, go for a spin in Murfreesboro! If you wish, $7 can be harvested for a precious diamond. The Crater of Diamonds State Park, the only diamond mine park in the world open to the public, is a place full of diamonds. You can dig with a tool, and maybe good luck will come. When the time comes, when you propose with a unique large diamond ring, I believe that no woman will say No.
The Jamestown Gold Treasure in California
California was known as a gold mining mecca in the 19th century, and to this day, these golden treasures are still waiting to be discovered. Find a place here, get a pair of gear, and learn to pan for gold. Maybe you can really dig something out of the stream, Jamestown also offers a variety of gold panning experiences, and you can find gold there for only a few tens of dollars! However, how to process it after finding it, this is also a problem.
<h1>Treasure of a shipwreck in the Florida Islands</h1>
In 1622, a ship of a Spanish sailing fleet sank in the Florida Islands, which was filled with gold jewelry. It was only in 1965 that the ship's wreckage was discovered, containing more than 6,000 pearls, silver coins bearing the seal of the Spanish Royal Family, many gold bars near pure gold, and sparkling necklaces. And now archaeologists estimate that there is still a treasure worth about $2 million that has not yet been excavated! The opportunity to get rich is coming!
<h1>Kansas meteorite treasure</h1>
In addition to the discovery of UFOs, many meteorites are found in kansas in the United States. Glorietta Mountain there has become a famous meteorite mountain, as long as you use the detector to sweep the way, you are likely to find a lot of strange things, perhaps with the existing knowledge of human beings can not explain, this is a cool thing!
<h1>Treasures in the Mayan "Holy Well"</h1>
In the eastern part of Mexico in Latin America, there is a large peninsula that protrudes into the sea, which is part of the Yucatan Peninsula that is Mexican territory. Except for the coastline, there is no one living in the rest of the country. It has been deserted for many years, but 500 years ago, the highly civilized Maya people were once the masters of the place. Around the 4th century AD, the Maya (including present-day Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize) already had a remarkable culture comparable to the ancient Inca culture that developed around Peru.
In the 20th century, Maya archaeology unfolded smoothly, and people successively discovered the remains of many ancient Maya civilizations, such as the ruins of the ancient city of Karakmur on the northern border of today's Guatemala in 1931. Discovered in 1956, the city of Tikal is the best-preserved ancient Mayan site to date. Historically, at its peak, the city of Tikal covered an area of more than 65 square kilometers, with more than 50,000 inhabitants and more than 3,000 pyramids, altars, and stone tablets. In its central area alone, there are more than a dozen large pyramids and more than 50 small temples; they are centered on the ancient central square, distributed on all sides, next to the palace decorated with relief paintings and the market surrounded by promenades. Connected to the religious centers are several stone avenues that rise above the ground.
These discoveries have attracted treasure hunters and archaeologists like magnets. A race against the clock began between the two. Treasure hunters' main targets include jade handicrafts (such as the ornate emerald jade masks of the 7th-century Palenque ruler Pakar), ancient Mayan ornaments processed from obsidian, and porcelain engraved with hieroglyphs (a plate can sell for $4,000-$6,000 at auction), which has greatly hindered the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphs. Archaeologists, on the other hand, have done their best to find and preserve antiquities related to the Mayan culture in order to solve the mysteries that this glorious civilization has left to future generations.
The mysterious legend of the "Holy Well"
For archaeologists, the ancient city of Chichen Isa in Honduras has an astronomical observatory called the "Spiral Tower" and a well-designed pyramid temple, which is of great significance for the study of the Mayan civilization. In the eyes of the treasure hunters, this is a cornucopia, and they hope to find the mysterious Mayan "holy well" in Chichen Isa, which is full of treasures.
Devotion to the gods was an important activity of the Mayan society. The Mayans believed that raining in the sky was the result of the presence of the rain god, and only by offering a "gift" to the rain god would the rain god come as promised. According to Mayan legend, in every year of drought, they would go to the holy well under the guidance of a priest and pray for the rainfall of the gods at the bottom of the well. During the ritual of worship, the Maya threw valuables such as gold, silver and jewelry into the well, but also beautiful maidens living!
The process of using maidens for sacrifice is even more thrilling. Usually, the Maya would throw a beautiful maiden as a human sacrifice into a well in the early morning, and if she fell into the water and drowned quickly, then people were very disappointed and cried and threw stones into the well together, because the gods had already shown them ominous omens. However, the peculiarity of the matter is that human beings and animals may still survive. If the maiden in the well from early morning to noon was still alive, the people above would lower a long rope and pull the survivors up. And this surviving person will henceforth be revered by the Mayans and is considered to be the "messenger" sent back by the rain god. Of course, there are not many young girls in history who returned alive as "messengers of god", and how many lives and treasures were swallowed up by the Mayan "holy well" became a mystery due to the sudden disappearance of the Mayan civilization, until the explorers broke into the ancient city of Chichen Isa.
After many studies, the explorers were convinced that along the central axis of the ancient city of Chichen Isa, there was a well on each side, of which the south well was a drinking well to provide water for the residents of the city, and the north well was a "holy well" used by the Mayan gods.
Treasure hunters fall into "jewelry holes"
The legend of the "Holy Well" has inspired generations of treasure hunters, but it was not until the 20th century that the location of the Sacred Well was finalized and excavations began.
In mid-July 1987, the French explorer Daniel embarked on a treasure hunt to the ancient city of Chichen Isa. After searching the ancient city ruins for more than a decade, Daniel encountered an ancient rocky mountain and found that there appeared to be a raised road on the left.
Daniel decided to investigate. Not far ahead, he found a stone stele almost completely covered in weeds and vines, which had been cleaned up to reveal a statue of a girl holding out her hands to meet the rain—and the statue clearly told Daniel that it was a sacred well monument to the Mayans. Sure enough, it wasn't long before Daniel found the Pyramid-shaped Temple of the Mayans!
One day, while cleaning the temple, Daniel stumbled upon a large stone slab in the middle of the floor that had a hollow sound when it was being tapped. He pried open the slate and found a spacious basement with a large stone pier in the room. He moved the stone pier away with great effort, revealing a square hole underneath. Daniel probed and saw a large python four meters long coming at him with its mouth open! Frightened, he hurriedly killed the python with a shotgun, and when he looked closely, he was startled again, and there were two human skeletons on the stone slab that had been bitten off by the big snake! Daniel found another large slate under the skeleton, and he pried open five slabs in a row, and finally found a stone door. He tried his best to move the stone door away, revealing a black hole. He took out the rope and continued to climb down to help, but on the way, he accidentally loosened his hand and "grunted" and fell.
When Daniel sat down again, he lit the torch and looked around, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and he was lying in the jewelry pile! This 15-meter-deep cave is filled with sparkling gold, bracelets, exquisite jade and vases of gemstones! He exclaimed: Is this the Mayan "holy well"?!
Jewelry and skeletons come to light
Daniel's adventures soon spread. Soon after, Benjamin, the leader of the Black Hawk organization of the American Mafia, approached Daniel and offered $1 million to try to buy the secret of the Holy Well, but Daniel refused.
Benjamin then kidnaps Daniel and leads his men to go with him to find the "Holy Well". Several people rushed to a "geyser" valley in the night. The last time Daniel passed by here, the local mountain people had told him that before the geyser suddenly erupted, the gaps in the surrounding rocks would emit white mist-like water vapor, and in a few minutes, the hot spring water would erupt in a state of displacement...
This time, Daniel deliberately stayed here for a long time in an attempt to save himself. Sure enough, after about ten minutes, Daniel noticed that a trace of white mist had emerged between the cracks. He said to Benjamin, "Sir, I'm going to go up to the big rock on the mountain and judge the direction." Benjamin hurriedly ordered one of his men to follow. At the moment of the first blow, Daniel saw the opportunity and kicked the follower down with force. Benjamin's gang drew their guns and shot them. Daniel was shot several times in the body. At the same time, the ground also erupted into a scream, and streams of hot spring water spewed out, engulfing Benjamin and the others. Daniel climbed desperately to the top of the mountain.
Daniel, who had been shot several times in his body, knew that his time was running out, and he reached for a pen and a diary with his trembling hand, supporting his body and writing: "The most tempting imagination is the treasure, and the treasure that brings the fatal ending is also the treasure!" ”
In the late 1990s, a group of European and American archaeologists found Daniel's bones and diaries on the top of the cliff. According to the clues recorded in this book, experts finally found the world-famous Mayan "holy well"- a deep pool formed by natural limestone, thousands of years later, the edge of the pool is full of grass and trees, and the pool is full of black gas.
Risking their lives, experts haunted the black miasma and installed a dredging machine for formal salvage. In the first few days, all was dug up, followed by the skeletons of many women, which confirmed the legend that the Mayan sacred well used beautiful maidens to ask for rain. Subsequently, countless gold and silver, jewelry, utensils and jewelry were dug up.
At this point, the secret of the Mayan "sacred well" was finally revealed, and the newly discovered treasure provided excellent material for people to study Mayan culture.
<h1>Treasure secrets in the New Testament</h1>
Fort Rennes is a small town in the Corbières Mountains of southern France, about sixty kilometers south of the city of Carcassonne, the capital of the Order Department. The church of Rennesborg towers over the top of the hill, accessible only to a 5-kilometre-long rugged, peak-twister uptown road. Although the Rennborg is located in the middle of nowhere, but the strange stories are still full of mystery, the far story has to start from a shepherd As early as the 17th century, there was a shepherd near rennborg, Ikas Paris, because the head of the ewe was lost while herding, and on the way to find the ewe, there was a large crack in the ground. He walked down the crack and saw a deep, bottomless tunnel. Walk along the tunnel and finally walk into a corpse. Chest-filled underground "catacombs". Parris was terrified at first, praying incessantly, afraid that someone underground would suddenly get up and kill him, probably driven by curiosity, he boldly opened the box, and it turned out that it was full of gold coins! Parris filled his pocket with gold coins and hurried home. However, Paris's sudden wealth soon spread throughout Renburg. Some people are jealous, some people are envious. Because Paris was always reluctant to reveal the true origin of his gold coins, he was accused of theft and eventually died unjustly in prison. However, he did not tell the secret of the catacombs until his death.
<h1>Treasures from Homer's epics</h1>
According to Homer's Epic, there were "two lovely springs" near the city of Troy, "one of which was hot, and the steam rose slowly from_t the surface of the water, floating above like a fiery mist; Yet the other spring, gushing out, was as cold as hail or snow even in the summer. ”
In April 1870, Schliemann obtained an excavation permit from the Turkish authorities and began excavating the obsolete city of Troy in TheKhshalik Mountains
Excavations broke ground in April 1870 and spanned three years intermittently. In 1871, it dug for 2 months, and then 4 and a half months in the next 2 years
In mid-March 1873, Schliemann began another large-scale excavation at a site in Shannan. However, the size of the city disappointed Schliemann, which was too small to perform a scene as great as the Iliad. But Schliemann then justified himself: as a poet, Homer exaggerated everything.
To Schliemann's fly in the ointment, he did not find a single piece of gold during 3 years of excavation.
One hot morning before June 1873, Schliemann, accompanied by his wife, stood 28 feet deep near the wall of the ancient building. Suddenly, he saw that underneath the incinerated layer of maroon waste, buried a large bronze vessel, and above it was a wall. Looking closer, Schliemann's sharp eyes found that behind the bronze, there was something sparkling, which seemed to be gold. Schliemann called Sophia to her and whispered, "Go and tell them to finish their work."
After the migrant workers dispersed, Sophia turned back to stand next to her husband. Schliemann crouched on the wall of the strong sunlight, holding a knife in his hand and digging around the hole where the bronze was found. Finally, the sermons showed the luster of ivory and the sparkle of gold, and Schliemann could put his hand in. Sophia took off the red shawl, and Schliemann took out the gold and silver treasures one by one and wrapped them in the shawl. Among the most precious of these artifacts are two magnificent golden crowns, far more glorious than the rest of the thing, which consists of 16,353 pieces of gold leaf, and a delicate necklace that can be wrapped around the wearer's head, and suspends 74 short, 16 long chains, each composed of heart-shaped gold pieces, the tassels on the short chains hang in front of the wearer's forehead, the long chains hang down on the wearer's shoulders, and the wearer's face is completely embedded in gold. The other resembles a front item, but the chain hangs from a gold leaf with a belt, and the side chain is shorter and only covers the sideburns. The two golden crowns are exquisitely crafted. There are also 6 gold bracelets, 1 601 g tall gold cup, 1 tall rye gold cup, 1 large silver vessel containing 60 gold earrings and 8700 small gold cups. There are also perforated diamond mirrors, gold buttons, perforated gold bars and other small ornaments, as well as silver and copper vases and bronze weapons.
Schliemann did not doubt even to his death that these treasures were not the property of Priamon, king of Troy. Since this is the city of Troy, this is the gate of Skaan, this is the palace of Priamon, then, of course, they are the treasures of homer's city of Troy. Nothing could shake Schliemann. He was convinced that the artifacts in his hands were the jewelry that had enchanted Helen, belonging to the woman who had destroyed the city of Troy.