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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.
[11] [12] [10] [19] [57] Also, much of the treasures housed in the much larger and as-yet-unopened vaults, as well as in the much smaller cellars that have been opened, date back to long before the institution of the so-called Travancore Kingdom, e.g. the 800 kg (1,800 lb) hoard of gold coins from 200 B.C that was mentioned by Vinod Rai.
This is a list of List of National Treasures of India, as named by the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972). [1] [2] Artists. List of National Treasures of India
The port-holed chamber in the western group of the Hirebenakal area has been compared to similar finds at Rajankolur. [ 4 ] The first published reports on Hirebenakal were those in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1835, by Philip Meadows Taylor , who was under the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad . [ 1 ]
Tourism has also contributed heavily to the economy of Thiruvananthapuram. Thiruvananthapuram, is a destination for chartered flights to India for Medical tourism. Padmanabha Swamy temple located in Thiruvananthapuram is considered as the richest temple in the world and has got 3 Trillion USD worth treasure. [1]
Jon Collins-Black, an entrepreneur turned author, recently released a book that will lead readers to five treasure chests hidden across the U.S. with a combined prize value of more than $2 million.
Jon Collins-Black once dreamed of finding treasure of his own. Now, he's hidden five treasure boxes around the US — and he wants people to find them. Collins-Black, a musician turned ...
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