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Saddle Ridge Hoard. The Saddle Ridge Hoard is the name given to a hoard of 1,427 gold coins unearthed in the western half of the Shasta Cascade region, of Northern California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled $27,980, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. The hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins ...
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
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.
The Lost Dutch Oven mine is one of the most famous lost mines in California, United States.There are several versions of the story, as is the case with most lost mine legends; perhaps the best known is the one with Tom Schofield, a railroad worker, decided to do some prospecting in his time off.
Some of America's best treasures can be places, monuments, festivals or even local traditions we may not give a second thought to. "Local Hidden Gems" looks to highlight those to our neighbors.
Coordinates: 40°24′41″N 123°00′43″W. The Hall City Cave is a limestone cave system near Hayfork, California, United States. Exploration was documented in 1903, with a Permian age ammonite fossil discovered. [1] A cavern in the Hall City Cave contains a deep shaft of water. [2]
New evidence uncovered at a dig site in Huesca, Spain, gives us a snapshot into what daily agricultural practices may have looked like more than 7,000 years ago. The Huerto Raso dig site was ...
October 23, 2024 at 12:14 PM. Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck ...