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About The Blackbeard Treasure
The Blackbeard Treasure is the world's largest treasure hunt, and the only one of its kind. With a reward totaling $10 million, The Blackbeard Treasure hunt spans across the country, with 10 treasure chests containing $1 million in cash hidden in each of 10 states.
6 Famous Missing Treasures
The student, Jack Stuef, 32, discovered the stash of gold nuggets, gemstones and pre-Columbian artifacts on June 6 in Wyoming, the grandson of the now-deceased antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote on a website dedicated to the treasure.
If your find can't be considered a treasure, you are legally required to take it to the police. It will go into their custody and be handled like any other case of lost property. However, if you've got a bonafide treasure trove you're probably in luck.
Shipwreck lottery: The biggest deep-sea treasure hauls in history. Earlier this month, a shipwreck with over $22 billion worth of gold was discovered at the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Columbia. The ship, dubbed the 'holy grail of shipwrecks', marks the most valuable deep-sea treasure haul to date.
In the U.S., laws vary by state, but the general conclusion is that going treasure hunting is often a waste of time because you likely can't keep it. The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 states that any “archaeological resources” found on the land of the state belong to the government.
No treasure has been reported to be found yet. The Treasure of Lima is a supposed buried treasure on Cocos Island in the Pacific abandoned by pirates. The treasure, estimated to be worth £160 million, was stolen by British Captain William Thompson in 1820 after he was entrusted to transport it from Peru to Mexico.
Discovery and salvage of the RMS Republic
After two and a half years of preparatory research to determine the wreck's location, Capt. Bayerle discovered the wreck of the RMS Republic in 1981. ... The 1987 salvage effort was successful in targeting and excavating their target area, but failed to locate the gold, however.
$771 Trillion Worth Of Gold Lies Hidden In The Ocean: Good Luck Getting It.
Deep-water shipwreck explorers have raised Reconstruction-era gold and silver coins and other precious artifacts from what could be one of the richest shipwreck treasures ever found. The treasure was found in the wreck of the S.S. Republic, which sank during a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in 1865.
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