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There are many impressive historic things that we know existed due to various records and reliable witnesses and yet, aren’t able to track them down. The reasons for it may vary from the thing being destroyed, scattered at the bottom of the sea to it being stolen or purposely hidden during times of trouble.
Either way, even hidden from people's eyes ancient treasures remain an important part of the world’s history and these people listed things of the sort that are still missing, answering one Redditor’s question: “What treasures that we 100% know existed still haven’t been found?”
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#1
The tomb of the First Qin Emperor of China exists and we know exactly where it is. The only part of the site that's been extensively excavated for artifacts is the famous Terracotta Army.
The main tomb itself is still completely sealed and no attempts have been made to open it since legend states that it was filled not only with mountains of treasure inside, but also mechanically operated rivers of flowing mercury made to resemble the major rivers and bodies of water in China and booby traps to protect the massive subterranean complex, which has been measured to be around 1/4th the size of the Forbidden City using ground-penetrating radar and other non-invasive techniques.
Apparently archeologists and scientists have found disturbingly high levels of mercury in the ground around the tomb giving some air of legitimacy to the legends which also raises concerns about the legend of booby traps. There's also concern that we do not currently have the technology and knowledge to protect artifacts we'd excavate from outside air and contamination, just like how earlier excavations of the Terracotta Army led to their original colorful paint being destroyed shortly after being unearthed.
EDIT: Since this comment got so popular, I'll add on the "Heirloom Seal of the Realm" also known as the "Imperial Seal of China". Physical possession of the object basically legitimized a claim to the Mandate of Heaven and thus rule over China. It was created in 221 BC, passing along through various emperors and factions until sometime between around 1500-1000 years ago. There's several theories on how, when, and where it was lost but we'll probably never get an answer unless some farmer happens to stumble on a fairly big square hunk of intricately carved jade in some field and realizes what it is.
Bubs (he/they) 1 year ago
Wow, this has gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever read! I hope someday we can safely and respectfully excavate the rest of the site.
Ginky 1 year ago
There an amazing documentary on Prime ‘First Emperor: The Man who Made China’ if you’d like to see more :) - also a great documentary on YouTube about the excavations to date including the undisturbed areas but I forget the name - search first emperors tomb, Terracotta Army.
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Timbob 1 year ago
Does that mean the ancient Chinese knew that Mercury was dangerous ?(and where would they have gotten Mercury ???)
Elio 1 year ago (edited)
Actually this emperor used to drink it because he thought it was magical and would make him immortal.
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#2
A large part of Pompei. What they have excavated so far takes an hour to walk through, but a huge part of it remains hidden. This is because they've found that being discovered is causing more damage to the remains than 2,000 years of being hidden beneath the pumice and they're waiting for new technology to preserve it.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago
If you can walk through pompei in a hour i would be impressed. Try a day. Pompei and herculenium are just a small part of what lies beneath. Its nmot possible to excavate all of it. People live above
Foxglove🇮🇪 1 year ago
In my experience, it takes a lot longer than an hour to go through - even the excavated part of Pompeii is huge. Herculaneum is much smaller, you might do that in an hour.
Whitney Keen 1 year ago
I've been there. The people encased in ash are on display in glass boxes outside with only a roof for rain. Altho im told they're probably just fakes but everything is open to the weather
#3
The missing Faberge eggs. There are about seven still missing, and only an old black and white photo remains of some of them, along with their descriptions.
Pyla 1 year ago
They could be in attics of Americans or other soldiers. LOADs of loot was taken by soldiers. Still crops up, I think most recently a painting was returned to the owner after it was in the family of a US soldier for at least two to three generations.
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the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
They might have been mealted down and sold under Stalin.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
That’s what I always thought too, by now considering the history and beauty of the egg, you would think if it was not hidden and forgotten, then someone would of come forward by now even just for the fame and glory of finding it.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Possibly blown up in an air or artillery attack during WW2.
Data1001 1 year ago
More likely for some of them: "Hey, would like like to see the new Faberge egg I just bought? Here, let me--" trips over loose floorboard, egg comes crashing down. "Anyone have any super glue?"
#4
Several have mentioned Genghis Khan’s tomb, but I’m more interested in his Black Spirit Banner which survived up until the 1960’s or so before disappearing under Soviet control of Mongolia.
The Black Spirit banner was made from black horse hair and carried by the Khan into battle and displayed during times of war. Similar to the mythos surrounding the Spear of Destiny, it was said the warriors of Mongolia would always be victorious in battle so long as they had the banner. After the Soviet Union took de facto control over the country in the 1950’s, the banner was held in a government office until it went missing sometime in the 70’s.
The book “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford is a great read if you’re interested in learning more about the history of the Khans and their impact on our world today.
Xitxarel•lo Panda 1 year ago
Yeah , and thank you. Awesome biography the Genghis Khan one . Awesome and awful live ......
Zaach 1 year ago
Check out the 'Hu' a Mongol (heavy metal??) band - ain't no heavy metal like throat-singing heavy metal - specifically Wolf Totem
Jen 1 year ago
Heck yeah! Saw them live last year, whole crowd was chanting Hu Hu Hu! They're on Spotify if anyone is interested - although on YouTube you get the videos too.
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#5
"The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, tr. Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg"
People are still looking, mostly in Poland
DarkGlassSphere 1 year ago
It is. It's in that palace now, amber is not such a rare thing.
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Rob Williams 1 year ago
I've wandered into a room and wondered why I was there. I've never managed to wander around and wonder where the room is!
Caessy Meschar 1 year ago
Near where I live is the Jonas Valley, where there were Nazi bunkers for building the V2 weapons. It is said that the boxes containing the Amber Room were stored there. These bunkers belonged to the Buchenwald concentration camp. It was the Mittelbau Dora subcamp
Uncle Schmickle 1 year ago
Nazis removed the amber panels. It's never been found, but Germany provided replicas.
Karri Berkowitz 1 year ago
There is a theory that it was actually a replica that was taken and the real one is still hidden in the palace.
#6
The enormous golden menorah from the 2nd temple.
The Romans took it after sacking Jerusalem. Some people think it’s being hidden by the Vatican, but I think more likely it was melted down and will never be found.
David 1 year ago
We know the Romans took it, because it is depicted on the Arch of Titus, and the Romans took thousands of gold bowls and utensils from the Temple as well. Considering the original inscription of the Colosseum said it was made with the profits from the loot of the Jewish Temple, it may have been melted down or some rich roman made it an lamp in their house. But we have no clue, but the Romans did a lot of looting in 70CE, and you can even find in the tunnel tours of the Old City of Jerusalem old roman gaffiti from the 10th Legion they marked after their conquest.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Wars aint cheap, of course it got turned into coins.
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David Paterson 1 year ago
The Vatican itself contains a great secret storehouse of great treasures. Very few scholars get the chance to even see a part of it.
Purple light 1 year ago (edited)
The menorah (/məˈnɔːrə/; Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה mənōrā, pronounced [menoˈʁa]) is a seven-branched candelabrum that is described in the Hebrew Bible and in later ancient sources as having been used in the Tabernacle and in the Temple in Jerusalem. The one pictured above is a recreation of the golden one in the temple. A candle with 8 arms and shamash is called a Hannukah menorah or hannukiah. So your statement is incorrect, this is a menorah.
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#7
Tomb of Alexander the Great. Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Funny thing is, there are all probably buried in Alexandria beneath the modern city.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Totally plausible. Wasn't the tomb of Richard III found under a parking lot?
VioletHunter 1 year ago
Yes, but he was hastily buried in a small chapel close to the battlefield he died on. Alexander the Great was mummified and displayed in a crystal coffin and people came and looked at him for centuries afterwards.
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Doug the Special one 1 year ago
No not a parking lot. It was a car park because it was in England.
Richienotsorich 1 year ago
It was an office's car park. Its now a museum.
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#8
Not that it isn't found, but the Forbidden Vault (Vault B) in the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in India remains unopened and is thought to contain treasure to a wealth of US$ one trillion. Other vaults opened there were found to contain 18' gold chains, a solid gold sheaf weighing 500kg and a three-and-a-half feet tall solid pure golden idol of Mahavishnu, studded with hundreds of diamonds and rubies and other precious stones.
The reason they don't open Vault B? It's said to be cursed.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
I don't know. It's possible who ever started the rumor or the legend noted below, did so because they didn't want anyone finding out he had already looted it.
Marsha Charnis-Colondres 1 year ago
Except for all the poor people who live in poverty in India now….let’s just wait for the well off folks to suffer the same fate; the “curse of poverty”, then the Vault shall be opened…!
#9
I went to college beside that museum in Boston that got robbed. They never found the thieves or the paintings. The famous Gardner museum theft. No one knows what happened to the paintings still.
Stacy Jones 1 year ago
It makes me sick at my stomach, but from my research, I've concluded that the paintings are lost. The original burglars hid them, and then died. I hope I'm wrong, and if I see The Storm on the Sea of Galilee on some press conference someday, I'm going to break down sobbing, but I think they're shreds of canvas amongst some tree roots at this point.
Load More Replies... Pyla 1 year ago
I had a friend that got a job there shortly after the robbery. It was run so casually that it's surprising someone hadn't tried before. It was so easy. There is a lot of speculation, but there is a person with it in a vault at this point and who knows. Interesting documentary rehashing the known info: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/gardner-heist-netflix-documentary-1957735
David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
I have an excellent book here called "museum of the missing". It's a set of photographs and descriptions of valuable paintings by very famous painters that have been stolen and never recovered. There are 50 paintings in there that have been stolen since the year 1990. The current value of the paintings stolen in the Westfries theft of 2005, for instance, is $13 million US.
Molly Whuppie 1 year ago
Probably hanging in private homes/galleries owned by very rich people.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 1 year ago
There is a fantastic Netflix documentary about this. Spoiler: Their best guess is the people that stole it died and they could be freaking anywhere now. Hopefully they'll pop back up eventually.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago (edited)
It sounds like the FBI was just a couple of steps behind them at a few points, but not in a long time. I remember when Whitey Bulger was caught in California, his neighbors said he loved to show off his art, but they thought it was all c**p, and I hoped that art was really the Gardner works, but no
#10
Almost all Homo Erectus Pekinensis remains. They were packed up during WWII with the intention of shipping them from China to the US for safekeeping, but the ship supposedly carrying the fossils was attacked and ran aground. Photographs and drawings of the originals still exist but the actual fossils were never found.
SweetPeaJules 1 year ago
My grandfather was stationed at an American embassy in China before the outbreak of WWII. He was supposed to evacuate the embassy and the Peking Man remains on a ship but the embassy was besieged by the Japanese the day before the evacuation. The Peking Man bones may have been on the boat or may have still been on the dock awaiting loading. Every couple of decades some anthropologist will try to find the bones and contact my family asking for any records we have on Grandpa's time in China to try to locate the Peking Man. Unfortunately nothing that we have is helpful.
Fynne 1 year ago
Well they were gone long before that but I assume you mean the remains of them
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#11
This one really isn’t talked about as much as it should. In 1996, billionaire couple Marvin and Kaye Lichtman who collected tons upon tons of priceless items art, chess sets, Faberge eggs, etc were murdered by a glass installer that they hired. Before burning the house down, the glass installer made off with as much of the couple’s riches as he could haul away. Shortly after he tried to flee to avoid prosecution and before he was caught, 3 men involved with the salvage operation at the scene were arrested for peddling items that were salvaged and they stole. Most of the lichtman’s collection including the items stolen by the glass installer who murdered them have never been found.
#12
King Johns Crown Jewels. Lost while crossing the Wash on the east coast of England. Over 800 years ago
Jeff Hunt 1 year ago
He actually was a fairly good administrator and somewhat of a reformer. His poor reputation is due to the nature of his ascension to the crown. A bit of a usurper.
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#13
The shipwreck of Flor de la Mar. Sunk with the equivalent of $2 billion in todays money.
KinoEel 1 year ago
I got a small sailing boat (MG 14) and a shovel. Is that enough?
Load More Replies... Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Are--are you saying...that not all the photos on BP match the text?
Load More Replies... Greg Treseder 1 year ago
I was so fascinated by this story that I wrote a novel about it a few years ago. The Kingdom Treasure. Historical Fiction.
brittany 1 year ago
no joke i think i heard about this for the first time when watch Disneys Aladdin the return of the Jafar. Im pretty sure thats the sunken ship that the thief Abis Mal wishes to find when he makes his first wish after he gets Jafar from the well. memory unlocked. i thought it was just something they made up for the movie.
#14
The horde of Aztec gold stolen and lost by Hernan Cortez and the Spanish conquistadors during the night of sorrows.
While trying to escape from Tenochitlan in the night with the gold, the conquistadors were set upon by the Aztecs. During the fighting and confusion it's thought the gold fell into lake Texcoco. Hernan Cortez escaped with only a small number of his soldiers and the gold has never been found.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
No that’s just filled with family portraits of the rich family and some prams and stuff
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
If it still exists, it is somewhere under downtown Mexico City. The original Lake Texcoco was drained, and Mexico City was built over it (which is, incidentally, why Mexico City is so vulnerable to earthquakes, as the undergound is basically sludge). However, the horde the Spanish took was comparatively small. The real treasure, apparently, was hidden by Emperor Cuauhtemoc before he was captured. Cortes actually tortured him for the location, but Cuauhtemoc died without revealing it.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
Maybe that's when Swiss banks started warehousing stolen gold. Try to get a warrant.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Fat chance. The Aztec Empire fell around 80 years before Switzerland was even a country...
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$190 million worth of bitcoin on a hard drive in a particular landfill.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
It will be one of the most useless treasures to find in the future 😂
Data1001 1 year ago
Not to mention that it'll be little more than a brick to whoever finds it, whether or not bitcoin is still a thing. Without the password/private key, it's highly unlikely anyone could access it, even with future decryption technology.
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Brett Layton 1 year ago
This one is gone, that hard drive was lost years ago it will have deteriorated into unsalvagable.
TheGrandaddy86 1 year ago
he is, in Wales, but the council wont allow him access to search.
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#16
Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael. Missing since the end of ww2, all signs point to it having been sold for traveling money by Hans Frank.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If so, that traveling money didn't take Frank far enough. He was executed as a war criminal in October of 1946.
David Paterson 1 year ago
This painting "was last seen in January 1945 and remains the most important painting lost in World War 2".
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
If they ever do find it, it will go for shedloads of money at auction
#17
No one mentioned the Ark of the Covenant.
The Honjo Masamune samurai sword.
David 1 year ago
The Ark was in the Holy of Holies in the first Temple, and according to Jewish tradition was hidden in a secret chamber (two version, 1 is under the Temple Mount, and the other places the chamber in a cave in the countryside) just prior to the destruction of the first Temple by the Babylonians (who documented destroying and looting it, but do not mention the Ark, but do reference it in earlier writings). The Second Temple period the Holy of Holies was empty, but they searched for years for the Ark, but the priests who hid it, died before being able to pass on its location. Now the Ethiopian Church claims that they have in a church in Ethiopian, but during the Italian Period, they checked it out and said the room was empty. Further the story they have is just under 1000 years old (a much later story by the so-called "Solomonic Dynasty") and a story that doesnt make much sense. It is an object lost to time.
KinoEel 1 year ago
According to Wikipedia: The Honjō Masamune[7] represented the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period and was passed down from one shōgun to another. It is one of the best known of the swords created by Masamune and is believed to be among the finest Japanese swords ever made. It was made a Japanese National Treasure (Kokuhō) in 1939.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Countless katana are lost, probably hanging around in some guys attic where his grandpa put it after taking it as a trophy in ww2.
#18
Irish Crown Jewels.
#19
Tomb of Genghis Khan
WindySwede 1 year ago
everyone at the funeral were killed to not reveal it's location. is that true?
William Teach 1 year ago
Reportedly, it was all those who dug the tomb, and those who witnessed the cart carrying his body.
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#20
Olavsskrinet; The sarcophagus of Olav Haraldsson.
Remember the christian viking from Vikings: Valhalla? Yeah, he was real. After his death, he became a saint and a bridge between old Norse faith and Christianity.
He was eventually laid to rest in a jewel adorned sarcophagus in the Nidaros cathedral. It was Northern Europes biggest destination for pilgrims until the reformation.
When Norwegians broke with the catholic church, Olavsskrinet - maybe with Olav still in it - disappeared. Buried under the cathedral? Sent to Denmark? Nobody knows.
#21
The entirety of DB Cooper's loot.
Leigh 1 year ago
This is not correct. Some of the money was recovered at Tina's bar on the Columbia River. The interesting question is was the money placed there, or did it end up there naturally? The river was dredged by the army core in between the hijacking and the discovery of the money. It was still bundled together oddly enough.
James Frail 1 year ago
This IS correct, because it states "The entirety." The original post therefore acknowledged that a partial was found.
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the one dude who likes cheese 1 year ago
But guys its because he took back to Asgard with him because he was actually Loki
Bubs (he/they) 1 year ago
This case will forever fascinate me. It's wild that none of the loot or even his body have been found, this assuming he died.
Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Chael Sonnen, the MMA fighter, tells an interesting story his father relayed about suspecting a longtime family friend of being DB Cooper. Knowing Chael, it's bs. But still fun to wonder what if
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#22
Apparently Oak Island 😂
Zaphod 1 year ago
What the hell happened to the History channel? Now, it mainly shows Ancient Aliens, bigfoot and other nonsense.
MagicJacket 1 year ago
A coin? From 16th century France? In the corner of the mysterious swamp some say is artificial on Oak Island?
pat manna 1 year ago
where do these guys get money? they sure as hell ain't finding treasure. we fast-forward thru the commercials while my husband tells me he hates everything about oak island
Dan O'Malley 1 year ago
Marty Lagina has a doctorate in petroleum engineering. His partner and college friend Craig Tester is a mechanical engineer. Together, in 1982, they founded Terra Energy Ltd which they sold to CMS Energy for $58 million in 1995 and founded another successful energy company, Heritage Sustainable Energy. Heritage happens to be one of the largest wind-turbine companies in the Mid-West of the US. Plenty of financial backing to keep digging holes for as long as they want.
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Charles Sheppard 1 year ago
I really love the part where they find "top of the p;ocket" buttons.
Paul Gerrard 1 year ago (edited)
Yes its plausible they dug deeply under a island (!!!!) and its protections include only allowing morons to seek its modern discovery
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Now this is the tale of our castaways, they're here for a long long time...
#23
When Alexander the Great was returning from India laden with uncountable riches plundered he decided to lead his troops through the Gedosian desert, emulating some ancient queen who did the journey and barely survived, it is a brutal environment. The army was reduced to a slog through hell, moving on average only 5-7 miles a day amidst endless harsh dunes and dire heat, the ~130 mile trek took them nearly a month. At least a third of his army perished and conditions got so bad that Alexander turned a blind eye and even eventually ordered the slaughter of the baggage train animals so their blood could be drank. Who knows how much treasure lie forever buried in those dunes
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Doesn't sound a great thing to do, maybe we should change his moniker to Alexander the Foolhardy
Realistic Optimist 1 year ago
He was a known alcoholic, so this could be true, haha.
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Why then is there a lost tomb of Alexander listed earlier as a missing treasure. ?
#24
About 83% of the caches from Byron Preiss' "The Secret."
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Got the book after seeing an episode of Josh Gates' Expedition Unknown. The images in the book are of such poor quality and so dark it's virtually impossible to see all the details. When they revealed one of the original paintings on the show it looked so much better. I don't understand how anyone has been able to find any of the boxes.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
High quality scans of all the images are available on the internet.
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Shannon Murdock 1 year ago
There is a website that breaks down all the drawings, the interpretations, and the cities they're believed to be in. I went down a rabbit hole after watching Expedition Unknown.
#25
Lost Dutchman Mine ? I think it was somewhere in Death Valley maybe ? been a long time since I heard it mentioned.
Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago
Arizona. Specifically, in the Superstition Mountains. Quite a few people have died trying to find it.
Pyla 1 year ago
Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
There is a creepy legend about everyone that has ever gone looking for it has ended up dead. i think the place has been nicknamed The Headless Valley.
bob cameron 1 year ago
There are probably many "headless valleys". The one I am most familiar with is on the Nahanii River, Northwest territory, Canada. Was rumored to be a shangri-la, home of sasquatch, dinosaurs etc.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 1 year ago
It's here in Az. People still search for it. It's never far from public minds
Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
Careful! There are A LOT of abandoned mines around Nevada/California/Arizona. So many are unmarked that there are danger signs telling you NOT to walk around, don't get off the roads my foot or vehicle. People die every year -- some are not found for a very long time. Dream on, and if you must search, don't go alone.
paulien 1 year ago
it was actually a german man XD dont know 100% how but it got messed up because of the word Deutsch they confused that with Dutch and that one stuck around lol
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#26
The last panel of "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb", the central altarpiece of the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. It was painted in 1492, but has been lost for quite a while. A replica now hangs in its place.
David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
According to "museum of the missing", painted in 1432, and snatched by the Nazis in 1942. There's quite a story behind it because it was taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and grabbing it back was Hitler's way of thumbing his nose at that treaty.
Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
The panel The Just Judges was stolen in 1934 and is still missing. Loads of theories have been proposed about who stole it and where it is. The nazis had nothing to do with the stolen panel, although they did take the painting to Germany after it was moved to France in 1940 - it meant to go to the Vatican but then Italy declared war and it got stored in a museum in France.
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#27
The imperial treasures of Japan (Kusangi, the mirror, and the magatama jewel) were supposedly lost beneath the waves during WWII.
Lost Prospector’s Gold Mine, DB Cooper.
Supposedly a ton of gold that Uday Hussain withdrew from the national bank of Iraq right before the US invasion. The US was able to find/seize some of it.
Donkeywheel 1 year ago (edited)
« The US was able to find/seize some of it » *steal some of it. There, I fixed it for you
brittany 1 year ago
the book "of nightingales that weep" offers a good third party fictional perspective of life in the Japanese imperial court and the river battle where the six-year-old Emperor Antoku and the jewels were lost to the sea. 2 would later be recovered but i believe the sword was lost. its a good read that really pulls at the heart strings
#28
The 1715 Spanish treasure fleet wreck will almost certainly never be 100% recovered, meaning there’s still some out there.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
yes the famous snow capped mountains of the Caribbean.
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Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
Treasures are still found along the Gulf of Mexico coast after hurricanes and storms. Not is large quantity but enough to make people run to the sand after violent weather, and there is a law about NOT using metal detectors on public land. Padre Island holds a lot of secrets. One of LaSalle's life boats was found a few years ago -- still had rope and supplies inside, and a wrapped body . . .
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago (edited)
The ship is an electric schooner called Opal ( https://www.northsailing.is/the-boats/schooner-opal/ ) but I don't know the location as it sails all over the world
Load More Replies... pep Ito 1 year ago
For God's sake. This post is ridiculous. Talking about a fleet of galleons with no data other than the century is useless.
Tostones 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1715_Treasure_Fleet Pretty easy to Google.
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#29
Mansa Musa's gold.
Awkward lady 1 year ago
It would be nice if we could have more details in the lists, we don't know who some of these people are. And no, I don't want to have to look up every time on Google!
TheElderNom 1 year ago
Mansa Musa was an African king/emperor who according to some sources was the richest man in history. On his pilgrimage to Mekka he gave away so much gold it ruined local economies.
Load More Replies... StPaul9 1 year ago
Mansa Musa was a fantastically wealthy African king (I think Ethiopia), who was so rich that when he spent his gold on his way to Mecca he literally crashed the gold market. When he brought gold back through Egypt, he single-handily restored the market. Dude was loaded.
StPaul9 1 year ago
Sorry, he was Malian and it took Cairo 12 years to recover once he had come through.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
Yes we'll, that disappeared a very long time ago. He was "known for his generosity", and certainly made a very big financial loss at Cairo. My guess is that it was stolen or traded away at the time of the slave trade in Mali, if not earlier.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Now to be found in Scrooge McDuck's money bin. Stop by for a swim sometime.
Wes Ouzts 1 year ago
Mali,Africa emperor. According to Wikipedia, he took troops, attendants,6,000 slaves carrying gold and 800 camels and made the Haj to Mecca. He spent lavishly on the way and built mosques every Friday. When he returned he was broke and in debt to money lenders. Short version - He blew it like a drug lord does!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Given the fact that Mansa Musa gave so much gold away during one pilgrimage to Mecca that he actually *lowered* gold's global market price, I reckon that the gold is not lost, but still in circulation or locked up at several national reserves...
#30
The three brothers
An absolutely beautiful set of jewels that simply vanished from record, which is very surprising as they are beautiful and large!
Michael None 1 year ago
I thought the three brothers had a cloak of invisibility, the elder wand and the resurrection stone?
#31
Great Golden Bell of Dhammazedi
Good chance it's still at the bottom of the river, under feet and feet of silt and mud. Lots of people looked for it, even to this day, but so far have been unsuccessful.
#34
Yamashistas gold. There have been some finds but between alleged booby traps and impossible to decode maps they are lost in jungle of the Philippines.
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The Atari video game series, Swordquest had a contest for the real life treasures: the Crown of Life, Philosopher's Stone and Sword of Ultimate Sorcery. You can find pictures of them so we know they existed. There are three theories about what happened to them. The first is they were all melted down after the competition was cancelled. The second, Atari CEO Jack Tramiel kept them for himself. Lately, they are gathering dust somewhere, forgotten.
Donkeywheel 1 year ago
Or you didn’t understand. The Atari company created these three objects and named them like this. Of course it’s not the actual philosopher’s stone…
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There's this one necklace these guys were looking for and this old lady gave them this whole long story about how she found it but didn't tell them she had it this whole time. Then she just drops it into the middle of the ocean without telling anyone.
What do you think ?
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
If any of these soft can-openers were owned by cats, their treasures are all under the sofa.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
These make me feel as though I can be the next Indiana Jones...but alas, I am not lol
Major Harris 1 year ago (edited)
the treasure of lima, peru, lost n 1820. in that year, peru was in revolt from spain and fighting for independence. the viceroy wanted to save the wealth from the city and hired a ship, the mary dear and her captain, william thompson to transport the treasure to mexico. the crew and her officers decided to keep the treasure and killed the guards. supposedly, the treasure is in the cocos islands where the crew and ship were captured by spain. the treasure is estimated to be $600,000,000 in todays money.
David Paterson 1 year ago
There are plenty of places we know with massive secret treasures, but no-one knows what is there or how much it's worth. The Vatican is one. Fort Knox, the value of the gold and other treasures there is uncertain within a factor of ten. Safe deposit boxes in Swiss and American bank vaults. Possibly China as well these days.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Just imagine is someone broke into Fort Knox and found it empty, with the gold and other valuables embezzled decades ago.
Load More Replies... William Teach 1 year ago
The tombs of the Snake Kings in Guatemala. The tomb of Attila the Hun. The treasure of many pirates, such as Blackbeard and Captain Morgan
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
If any of these soft can-openers were owned by cats, their treasures are all under the sofa.
DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago
These make me feel as though I can be the next Indiana Jones...but alas, I am not lol
Major Harris 1 year ago (edited)
the treasure of lima, peru, lost n 1820. in that year, peru was in revolt from spain and fighting for independence. the viceroy wanted to save the wealth from the city and hired a ship, the mary dear and her captain, william thompson to transport the treasure to mexico. the crew and her officers decided to keep the treasure and killed the guards. supposedly, the treasure is in the cocos islands where the crew and ship were captured by spain. the treasure is estimated to be $600,000,000 in todays money.
David Paterson 1 year ago
There are plenty of places we know with massive secret treasures, but no-one knows what is there or how much it's worth. The Vatican is one. Fort Knox, the value of the gold and other treasures there is uncertain within a factor of ten. Safe deposit boxes in Swiss and American bank vaults. Possibly China as well these days.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Just imagine is someone broke into Fort Knox and found it empty, with the gold and other valuables embezzled decades ago.
Load More Replies... William Teach 1 year ago
The tombs of the Snake Kings in Guatemala. The tomb of Attila the Hun. The treasure of many pirates, such as Blackbeard and Captain Morgan
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