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The Mines of Bloodstone is an adventure in which the player characters travel through a blizzard to reach the Bloodstone Mines, through which they can get to the duergar kingdom of Deepearth, and the Temple of Orcus. [1] The adventure begins with a series of village encounters, before some further encounters and difficult weather in a big valley.
Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history. Some lost mine legends have a historical basis, and some have none. Regardless, the lure of these legends is attested by the many books on the subject, and the popularity of publications such as Lost Treasure magazine. [1] [2]
Map created by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island. A treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a lost mine, a valuable secret or a hidden locale. More common in fiction than in reality, "pirate treasure maps" are often depicted in works of fiction as hand drawn and containing arcane clues for the characters to follow.
The mine is named after German immigrant Jacob Waltz (c. 1810–1891), who purportedly discovered it in the 19th century and kept its location a secret. "Dutchman" was a common American term for a German ("Dutch" being the English cognate to the German demonym "Deutsch", and not a reference to the Dutch people). [1]
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 ...
Tell Barri, northeastern Syria, from the west; this is 32 meters (105 feet) high, and its base covers 37 hectares (91 acres) Tel Be'er Sheva, Beersheva, Israel. In archaeology, a tell (from Arabic: تَلّ, tall, 'mound' or 'small hill') [1] is an artificial topographical feature, a mound [a] consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two more victims of the notoriously deadly Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D.
The depth measurements in this list represent the difference in elevation from the entrance of the mine to the deepest excavated point. The definition of mine for this list is an artificially made excavation for the purpose of extracting resources, that can potentially be accessed by humans.