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Ruins from the mysteriously abandoned settlement were rediscovered during construction in France. Ancient settlement teeming with treasures was abandoned 1,900 years ago. See it now
Buried Treasure. A couple in England found dozens of rare coins stashed under their kitchen floorboards during a recent renovation of their 18th-century home. The coins, which sold at auction for ...
Removing rocks and other debris in a very large urban privy (c. 1855). Privy digging is the process of locating and investigating the contents of defunct outhouse vaults. The purpose of privy digging is the salvage of antique bottles and everyday household artifacts from the past.
The treasure would be composed of "carved silver, gold jewellery, pearls and stones of value, Chinese porcelain, rich fabrics, paintings and perhaps 500,000 pesos". [10] The stories about this treasure are varied, some place it in the environment of the Roques de Anaga , while others place it in the zone of Punta del Hidalgo and the cave of San ...
Some states have rejected the American common law and hold that treasure trove belongs to the owner of the property in which the treasure trove was found. These courts reason that the American common law rule encourages trespass. Under the traditional English common law, treasure trove belongs to the Crown, though the finder may be paid a reward.
Janet Eger and Teena Ligman have hiked hundreds of miles across southern Indiana. The two recently shared some family-friendly jaunts to "undiscovered treasures" in Lawrence and Orange counties.
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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.