Do you sometimes feel like you’re cursed with bad juju that you just can’t catch
a lucky break?
Well, here’s to hoping the luck of these people you’re about to meet will somehow
rub off on you, ‘coz they have just unearthed the 9 Most Amazing Treasures Found Recently!
What’s up, fact-natics!
This is Discovery Amuse, serving up your daily dose of the most outrageous, outlandish, and
out-of-this-world fun facts!
Stick around ‘coz I’m pretty sure our top pick probably has an entire constellation
of lucky stars.
Just like Domino from Deadpool!
Deadpool: Meet Domino: Domino.
Deadpool: What’s your schtick?
Domino: I’m lucky.
Deadpool: That’s not a superpower.
Domino: Yeah, it is.
#9: Nazi-stolen Loot
During World War II, aside from murdering more than a million Jews in Poland, Nazi Germans
also stole everything of value that they could get their hands on, from silverware and cutlery
to gold bars and expensive jewelry.
In 1941, when the Nazis occupied the Royal Castle in the Polish city of Nowy Sacz, they
turned the palace into a barracks and storage for their ammo.
However, a recent discovery shows that it wasn’t just weapons that were stored there
after all.
In June of 2020, researchers unearthed a chest full of silver in the ruins of the fortress.
A total of 103 silver pieces were discovered, which included homeware such as goblets and
cutlery, believed to be part of the German soldiers’ loot.
Keep watching because our top pick is one epic treasure hunt for the ages!
#8: French Kitchen Find
For decades, an elderly French woman from Compiègne, France kept this small religious
painting above her stovetop, thinking it was nothing but a random knock-off that zhoozhed
up her boring kitchen.
In 2020, when she was moved to a retirement home, her family did an inventory of her house
before they emptied it.
Much to their astonishment, an auctioneer spotted the painting, and the old wall décor
turned out to be a 700-year-old rare Renaissance treasure!
Woman: It’s an object that’s been passed down from mother to daughter for 3 generations.
But they didn’t particularly know about its history or aesthetic value.
The painting, titled “Christ Mocked” was actually by 13th-century Florentine painter
Cimabue.
Made in around 1280, it’s one of the three panels that survived from his work called
Diptych of Devotion.
In October of 2019, the masterpiece fetched a whopping 24 million euros at an auction
just outside of Paris.
Being the only Cimabue piece that came to market, it now ranks alongside the works of
Leonardo Da Vinci, Rubens and Rembrandt in the top 10 list of the most expensive old
paintings ever sold!
#7: Lockdown Luck
In May 2020, at the height of the coronavirus lockdown in France, a Parisian family decided
to move to their old home in Vendôme to ride out the pandemic.
Ha!
If they only knew.
As the months got warmer, the children wanted to play in the garden.
So the boys went rummaging through their nanna’s room for stuff to build a make-shift hut with.
Lo and behold, two heavy objects fell as they took away some sheets.
When they told their father about it, they discovered that these random paperweights
were, in fact, gold ingots!
Boy: It’s gold, load em up, anything you can put in your pocket.
Weighing about a kilo each, the gold bars had an estimated value of almost $44,000 apiece.
It turned out that their grandmother purchased the gold bars sometime in 1967, possibly as
an investment.
As per the advice of an auctioneer, the family decided to wait for its value to appreciate
as it could potentially fetch more than a hundred grand!
The children only had one request in exchange for their discovery – a swimming pool!
The kids are indeed alright!
#6: Heirloom in the Attic
When a few relics wrapped in newspaper were passed down to a British couple by their family,
the couple initially thought nothing of them and just let the items collect dust in the
attic of their house in Berkshire, England.
Little did they know, they have actually been sitting on some rare treasures all these years.
In 2019, the man of the house learned he was a descendant of Major Thomas Hart, who was
part of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war where the famous Indian freedom fighter Tipu Sultan
was defeated in 1799.
The artifacts the couple were taken from Tipu Sultan’s palace, and were handed down by
Major Hart’s family for generations.
Some of the royal Indian loot include the gun used by Tipu Sultan himself, 4 swords,
a shield, a betel nut casket, and a solid gold seal ring.
And all my parents passed down to me was their home mortgage.
#5: Luck of the Irish
They say real friends are a blessing, and it couldn’t have been truer for one Irish
lad.
See, in October of 2019, a farmer from Northern Ireland lost his wedding ring and thought
he had dropped it in one of his fields.
To the rescue were his friends Paul Reynard and Michael Gwynne, who helped the man find
the missing ring using metal detectors.
The bad news, they didn’t find the wedding band.
Good news, they instead found centuries-old gold coins!
Reynard: This is it, this is what we dreamed of!
The dream of dreams!
Reynard and Gwynne didn’t need no four-leaf clover to unearth 84 pieces of gold coins
dating back from the 16th century!
One coin in particular even had the face of the infamous King Henry VIII, and is valued
at 5,000 pounds!
The haul has an estimated total value of more than 100,000 pounds, which should be more
than enough to get their friend a new ring… and a new lease on life!
#4: Shipwreck Treasure Trove
A ship called the Mentor, owned by the British Earl of Elgin, was carrying marble sculptures
stolen from the Parthenon in Athens among other treasures, when it sank in 1802 just
off the coast of Kythera Island in Greece.
In 1816, the Earl’s secretary sold the Parthenon sculptures to the British Museum, and since
then, the Greek government has been trying to demand the return of the historical artifacts
to their rightful home.
But controversial sculptures aside, divers have been going on expeditions to further
recover more and more items from the shipwreck.
In fact, in 2019, marine archaeologists struck gold when they recovered a gold ring, a pair
of gold earrings, and three chess pieces.
And in early 2021, another expedition yielded coins, a metal buckle, cooking utensils and
other mundane items that paint a better picture of life aboard the Mentor during its heyday.
#3: Whale Vomit
You might be thinking whale barf sounds utterly disgusting, but what if I told you that it’s
worth $10,000… per pound?
Charlie: Say what now?
Whale vomit, otherwise known as ambergris, is a highly-coveted ingredient used by perfumers
as a fixative to make scents last longer.
Kemp: It’s like a bouquet of 20 or 30 different chemical compounds, each have their own odor
profile.
So just imagine the incredible windfall that came upon a Thai barman named Boonyos Tala-upara
in 2019, when he learned that the 22-pound waxy blob he found by the beach that’s been
sitting in his garden for weeks, could actually be ambergris!
If confirmed, Boonyos could well be walking out of the bank 500-grand richer!
Smells like sweet fortune!
#2: Triple Tanzanite
In case you didn’t know, this bluish violet gemstone called tanzanite is considered one
of the rarest precious stones on the face of the planet!
So just imagine unearthing two of the world’s biggest chunks of tanzanite!
That’s exactly what happened to a small-scale miner named Saniniu Laizer, who discovered
2 massive tanzanite stones in northern Tanzania in June of 2020.
The rare jewels weighed a total of 33 pounds, and fetched a staggering $3.4 million!
Saniniu: With the money we are getting, we will give back to our community.
I personally have set up 2 schools for children with the money I received from mining.
But just when you thought he’s already one of the luckiest people on Earth, he proved
that the lightning of luck can indeed strike the same place—or person--twice!
Because just 2 months later, he discovered a third slab of tanzanite that weighs 13 pounds!
Saniniu was able to sell it for $2 million, which brings his total earnings to $5.4 million!
Wow, some people really do have all the luck in the world, don’t they.
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#1: Real Life Treasure Hunt
Forrest Fenn is a decorated US Air Force pilot who, upon his retirement, operated an art
gallery with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Unfortunately, in 1988, Forrest was diagnosed with cancer.
This inspired him to hide a treasure chest filled with rare coins, nuggets of gold, jewelry,
and gemstones in an outdoor location.
Luckily, he survived the big C, but instead of recovering his treasure chest, in 2010,
he published a memoir containing clues to the location of the hidden chest that was
said to be worth a whopping $2 million!
Obviously, this launched a treasure-hunting frenzy, where tens of thousands were believed
to have searched the Rockies for the hidden riches!
Fenn: I made it hard deliberately, if it was easy, anyone can do it.
Finally, in June of 2020, Fenn himself announced that his treasure chest had been found, and
in December of that year, a 32-year-old med student from Michigan named Jack Stuef finally
revealed himself as the lucky treasure hunter!
Stuef initially wanted to remain anonymous due to safety reasons.
However, he decided to unmask himself because a lawsuit threatened to reveal his identity.
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