Treasures
Lost hoards, stolen masterpieces and the ships that never came home.
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TreasuresWhy did nobody come back for more than 5,000 silver coins buried in this field?
In April 2026 two men stopped digging after 19 coins and made a phone call. What came out of that Norwegian field afterwards was still being counted six months later.
TreasuresHundreds of millions of Pablo Escobar's dollars may still be buried in Colombia. So why can't anyone find them?
A fortune measured in billions, hiding places that died with one man, and more than 30 years of sledgehammers, shovels and rumors. Here is what treasure hunters have actually found.
TreasuresIn twenty eleven, a search team found a ship that sank in nineteen forty one, torpedoed by a German submarine and resting almost three miles down.
A ship had been sitting in freezing black water for seventy years. Then a team of robots dove deeper than anyone had ever pulled treasure from a shipwreck before.
TreasuresPeople are still hiking into one Arizona mountain range today, searching for gold that has never been found.
For more than a hundred years, people have walked into one Arizona mountain range chasing a story about hidden gold, and some of them never walked back out.
TreasuresDivers pulled forty tons of silver and gold from one shipwreck, found in nineteen eighty five after a sixteen year search off the Florida Keys.
A father spent sixteen years chasing a sunken galleon full of silver. Along the way, he lost the son who was searching right beside him.
TreasuresIn nineteen ninety six, divers found cannons buried in the sand off North Carolina.
A pirate ship crashed onto a sandbar off the coast of North Carolina in 1718. It took almost three hundred years for anyone to find it again.
TreasuresIn August a Queen's Necklace Vanished From a Vienna Museum in Broad Daylight
A hammer, a glass case, and a necklace built for an Egyptian queen. The strange part is that this was not the first time it went missing.