These treasures remain unfound but not
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the top 10 lost treasures in the world
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the most valuable and/or famous caches
of treasure that remain hidden or that
have been lost to the world we won't be
including treasures or locations that
most agree are fictional like the sunken
Atlantis
it's gotta be number 10 the Oak Island
money pit located on an island off the
coast of Nova Scotia Canada the Oak
Island money pit is a mysterious pit of
loose soil that is among the most
excavated treasure sites in the world
and has even obsessed famous people like
US President Franklin D Roosevelt
various stones and markers in the
location have given strong hints about
possible buried treasure over the years
the stories of what these supposed
treasure actually is have varied wildly
ranging from a pirate horde belonging to
Captain Kidd or Blackbeard to
Shakespearean folios to royal jewels
whatever its contents the money pit
remains an enduring and enticing mystery
number 9 the missing Kruger Millions the
Boers were the South African descendants
of Dutch settlers when they fought the
British in the second anglo-boer war and
realized they would lose the war and be
overrun it reportedly prompted Boer
leaders to gather as much gold and
diamonds as they could supposedly the
last president of Boer era South Africa
Paul Kruger hid this treasure well in
South Africa before fleeing the country
in today's currency, the value of the
gold is estimated at around half a
billion dollars while parts of the gold
may have been found over the years the
total truth of those claims has not been
verified and the treasure remains
unaccounted for number 8 the treasure of
the copper scroll the oldest treasure on
our list the copper scroll is one of the
famous Dead Sea Scrolls and is
completely unique compared to the rest
as it's essentially a treasure map
recorded on it are dozens of sites where
gold and silver
hidden by the crafters of the scroll who
are thought to be members of an early
Jewish temple or military group the
directions are written in such a way
that they assume that any readers would
be familiar with the locations described
but considering the fact that the
locales are over 2,000 years out-of-date
this makes finding the treasures
borderline impossible number seven the
victoria peak treasure in the state of
New Mexico in the 1930s a man named doc
nas claimed to have found a huge cache
of gold bars or rods in the mountains of
victoria peak while hiking the claim has
never been proven after removing some
treasure nas later returned to the cave
where he found it and tried to use
dynamite to widen the narrow entrance
predictably NASA's efforts only served
to seal up the cave since then many have
tried to rediscover the treasure
including the US Army during the 1950's
and nuclear tests however the Gold's
location as well as its origins remains
a buried secret to this day number 6
Forrest Fenn's million dollar buried
treasure Forrest Fenn is a controversial
art and antiquities dealer after being
diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s Fenn
decided to bury roughly a million
dollars worth of treasure in a chest
somewhere in the Rocky Mountains he
survived his cancer but later buried the
treasure anyway
Fenn has put out an enigmatic poem
containing hints about where the
treasure can be found
according to Fenn when the growing value
of the chest contents reaches 10 million
dollars he will unearth it nevertheless
the story and riddle map have inspired
many to search for it, and several people
have even died in their pursuit of
Fenn's treasure number 5 the lost
Faberge eggs blue fabric a egg the
world-famous Faberge eggs are a group of
exquisite ornaments shaped like eggs and
made from items like gold glass and
enamel
often encrusted with jewels the majority
of them were made for the Russian royal
family although a few others were made
for select individuals when the Russian
Revolution toppled the monarchy in
Russia some of the eggs were stored
securely while some were later sold or
lost currently seven of the Faberge eggs
are unaccounted for but there
still hope that they may be found after
all. There have been several finds in
recent years number four the Amber Room
considered one of the wonders of the
world by some the Amber Room was an
elegant room constructed of gold jewels
and as its name implies Amber paneling
first built for a palace in Prussia the
room was later moved to Russia but was
taken by Germany during the Second World
War in the chaos surrounding the end of
the war the Amber Room was lost most
signs point to it being somewhere in
Central Europe and its value is
estimated to be around 200 million
dollars at least while only time will
tell if the room can be found again a
recreation was recently unveiled in
Russia made from comparable materials
number three the Lufthansa heist and
these are the guys that Jimmy put
together for what turned out to be the
biggest heist in American history made
particularly famous in pop culture in
the great Martin Scorsese movie
Goodfellas the Lufthansa heist is
believed to be the largest cash robbery
in American history cash and jewels
worth over 21 million dollars in today's
currency were stolen from a Lufthansa
Cargo building at JFK Airport in 1978
despite being one of the most thoroughly
investigated crimes in the United States
none of the stolen money or jewels has
ever been recovered why is this been the
case
well perhaps due to the heists architect
gangster Jimmy Burke making most
brutally certain that there were no
information leaks to the treasure of the
fleur de la Mod the floor did amount of
was a Portuguese warship that was
wrecked off the coast of sumatra
according to historical accounts the
vessel was laden with the largest
treasure ever collected by that nation's
Navy composed of valuables taken from
Malacca what's now Malaysia as well as
tribute from the King of Siam what's now
Thailand the total value is estimated to
exceed
two and a half billion dollars making it
one of the greatest unfound sunken
treasures in the world along with
Spain's famous lost 1715 treasure fleet
number one the treasure of the Knights
Templar the Knights Templar was a
Christian military order that accrued a
huge amount of wealth in part due to
using a primitive kind of banking in
addition the order was supposedly also
entrusted with many legendary religious
relics such as the Holy Grail and the
Ark of the Covenant when the Knights
Templar fell out of favor
they were demonized and many of their
assets were seized however much of their
treasure remains lost and while it's
hard to say where it is or how much it's
worth
it could easily be in the billions or if
they truly had holy objects priceless do
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