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UPDATE: The Project Skydrop trophy has been found in Massachusetts. Click here for the latest.. AMHERST - The Project Skydrop treasure hunt for a gold trophy and a massive prize has zeroed in on ...
BOSTON - A treasure hunt that spanned much of the northeast before being narrowed to the woods of Massachusetts has turned up gold. The creators of Project Skydrop said that somebody picked up the ...
Inside the 1,200-year-old grave, archaeologists unearthed a treasure trove of gold artifacts, including several breastplates, two belts made of gold beads, bracelets, figure-shaped earrings ...
Prior to the discovery of the hoard, the largest buried collection of gold found in the US was uncovered by city workers in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1985. The Jackson hoard had a face value of $4,500 and sold for about $1 million (not adjusted for inflation). [7] The face value of the Saddle Ridge treasure is $27,980. [8]
The reported treasure and efforts to find it have been covered in books and on television, including: a September 1977 segment of 60 Minutes by Dan Rather, who also interviewed Ova Noss [9] the 1978 book 100 Tons of Gold by David Leon Chandler [10] the television show Unsolved Mysteries; originally on May 10, 1989, and an update on February 11 ...
The Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure is a collection of valuable objects including gold thrones, crowns, coins, statues and ornaments, diamonds and other precious stones. It was discovered in some of the subterranean vaults of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, in the Indian state of Kerala, when five of its six (or possibly eight) vaults were opened on 27 June 2011.
Treasure hunts have long captured people's imaginations — you can even download a geocaching app to hunt for real-world caches of information using GPS devices. The art collector Forrest Fenn ...
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