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  2. Treasure map - Wikipedia

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    Treasure map. 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. Regardless of the term's literary use ...

  3. The Secret (treasure hunt) - Wikipedia

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    The Secret is a treasure hunt created by Byron Preiss. The hunt involves a search for twelve treasure boxes, the clues to which were provided in a book written by Preiss in 1982, also called The Secret. These boxes were buried at secret locations in cities across the United States and Canada that symbolically represent events and peoples that ...

  4. List of missing treasures - Wikipedia

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    One of the eight treasures of the Sasanian king Khosrow II. Heirloom Seal of the Realm. Confirmed. circa 960. —. Imperial Seal of China created by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, lost after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in the 10th century. Egill Skallagrímsson 's silver. Legend. circa 990-995.

  5. Beale ciphers - Wikipedia

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    A pamphlet published in 1885, entitled The Beale Papers, is the source of this story.The treasure was said to have been obtained by an American named Thomas J. Beale in the early 1800s, from a mine to the north of Nuevo México (New Mexico), at that time in the Spanish province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (an area that today would most likely be part of Colorado).

  6. Oak Island mystery - Wikipedia

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    Oak Island mystery. Coordinates: 44.51365°N 64.29466°W. Excavation work on Oak Island during the 19th century. The Oak Island mystery is a series of stories and legends concerning buried treasure and unexplained objects found on or near Oak Island in Nova Scotia. Since the 18th century, attempts have been made to find treasure and artifacts.

  7. Yamashita's gold - Wikipedia

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    Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines. It was named after the Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita ...

  8. Lost Adams Diggings - Wikipedia

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    The new book contains maps, pictures of artifacts, assay reports, and is written in a conversational format with Dick interviewing the re-discoverers Paul Hale and Ronald Schade. A similar but geographically less plausible location was found in eastern Arizona by Don Fingado near Clifton. The site contains features described by Adams much like ...

  9. Fenn treasure - Wikipedia

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    Fenn treasure. The Fenn Treasure was a cache of gold and jewels that Forrest Fenn, an art dealer and author from Santa Fe, New Mexico, [1] hid in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. [2] It was found approximately a decade later in 2020 [3] in Wyoming by an anonymous treasure hunter later revealed to be former journalist and medical ...