World’s 10 Amazing Treasures

Any treasure hunter or people who seek for treasures? I found it is something mysterious and I also doubt whether it is really like what I watched from the documentary. Some treasures information i found below can be debatable. Does it really existed or not? Well, though it’s an history, but i believe its do exist. Some treasures were found already and some are still an unknown. Well, hope everyone enjoy this awesome post. Check Out!

1 ) The Amber Room

The original Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg is a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. It was an 11-foot-square hall consisting of large wall panels inlaid with several tons of superbly designed amber, large gold-leaf-edged mirrors, and four magnificent Florentine mosaics.

Arranged in three tiers, the amber was inlaid with precious jewels, and glass display cases housed one of the most valuable collections of Prussian and Russian artwork ever assembled.  Created for Prussia’s King Friedrich I and given to Russian czar Peter the Great in 1716, it was located at Catherine Palace, near St. Petersburg. Today, the Amber Room would be valued at more than $142 million. After other 18th-century renovations, the room covered about 180 square feet and glowed with six tons of amber and other semi-precious stones. The amber panels were backed with gold leaf, and historians estimate that, at the time, the room was worth $142 million in today’s dollars. Over time, the Amber Room was used as a private meditation chamber for Czarina Elizabeth, a gathering room for Catherine the Great and a trophy space for amber connoisseur Alexander II.

2 ) The Lost City – Atlantis (the coordinates are: 31 15’15.53N 24 15’30.53W.)

According to a British aeronautical engineer, Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth, has found what many humans could not: the lost city of Atlantis. A near-perfect rectangular grid has shown up about 620 miles off the coast of northwest Africa, near the Canary Islands and it looks like it’s on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. “It’s true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an Ancient Roman villa,” a Google spokesperson said. “In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process.

According to the Greek philosopher, Atlantis was a highly advanced island society that existed some 9,000 years before. Its territory was “greater in extent than Libya and Asia,” with luxurious palaces, abundant gold and silver, and the best soil and climate in the world. Ruled by 10 wise princes, life was so bountiful on Atlantis that few of its inhabitants had to resort to physical labor. But then, Plato wrote, the Atlanteans were defeated in war by other tribes. Soon afterward on one cataclysmic day, disaster struck.

3 ) Blackbeard’s Treasure

The famous pirate Blackbeard only spent about two years (1716-1718) plundering the high seas. Within that time, however, he amassed some serious wealth. While the Spanish were busy obtaining all the gold and silver they could extract from Mexico and South America, Blackbeard and his mates waited patiently, then pounced on the treasure-laden ships as they sailed back to Spain.

researchers now believe they have found the wreckage of Blackbeard’s famous ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, in the briny depths of the Atlantic Ocean.  Blackbeard, known as Edward Thatch or Edward Teach, is thought to have run around near Beaufort Inlet, South Carolina.  The wreck was first discovered in 1996, but is now only conclusively thought to have belonged to the world’s most famous pirate.

it contained not just gold and silver coins (though it had those), but it also contained a great deal of looted equipment.  Apothecary weights, a mortar and pestle, and even some nautical navigation equipment were recovered from the boat.  Apparently, useful tools were very popular among pirates, because they could be resold easily to other sailors and pirates, whereas used gold teeth wouldn’t be easy to get rid of.  I guess it’s the 1600’s equivalent of a chop shop.

4 ) Thousands of Pearls Found in Shipwreck

Salvagers discovered thousands of pearls Friday in a small, lead box they said they found while searching for the wreckage of the 17th-century Spanish galleon Santa Margarita.  Divers from Blue Water Ventures of Key West said they found the sealed box, measuring 3.5 inches by 5.5 inches, along with a gold bar, eight gold chains and hundreds of other artifacts earlier this week.  They were apparently buried beneath the ocean floor in approximately 18 feet of water about 40 miles west of Key West.  “There are several thousand pearls starting from an eighth of an inch to three-quarters of an inch,” said Duncan Mathewson, marine archaeologist and partner in Blue Water Ventures.

James Sinclair, archaeologist and conservator consulting with Mel Fisher’s Treasures, Blue Water’s joint-venture partners, said the pearls are very rare because of their antiquity and condition.  Sinclair said pearls don’t normally survive the ocean water once they are out of the oyster that makes them.The pearls will be conserved, documented and photographed in an archaeological laboratory above the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West.  “Until they’re properly cleaned and conserved we don’t know their value, but it would seem they would be worth upwards of a million dollars,” Mathewson said.

5 ) Montezuma’s Treasure

The search for Montezuma’s treasure continues in the Kan ab area. Legend has it that when the Aztec king, Montezuma was killed by his own people in Mexico in the 1500′s, and the Spanish Conquistadors were driven from Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs took their treasure and hid it from the Spaniards. That was 400 years ago.  In 1914, Freddy Crystal arrived in Johnson Canyon, just north of Kanab. He had a newspaper clipping of Mexican petroglyphs he thought indicated that Montezuma’s treasure was hidden nearby.  Six years later, the entire town of Kan ab was living in tents at the head of Johnson Canyon digging for the hidden treasure. After two years there was still no sign of gold.

Today, a vast treasure trove remains hidden beneath nearly five centuries of mud and sludge on the outskirts of Mexico City, the modern day incarnation of Tenochtitlan. Generations of treasure seekers have sought the lost hoard without success. A former president of Mexico even had the lake bed dredged, but no treasure was found.

6 ) Pharaohs’ Missing Treasure

The discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922 revealed the fact that he had been buried with many worldly jewels and riches. However, this was not the first the people had heard about royalty being buried with much of the wealth that they had acquired during their life. It was well-known that the Pharaohs of Egypt were usually buried with many of their gems and precious stones and it’s always been better-known that these tombs were often raided by many thieves and criminals.

One particular ruler, Herihor, has been the focus of special attention. Herihor was a high court official during the reign of Ramses XI. Upon Ramses’ death, Herihor usurped the throne, dividing up the kingdom with a co-conspirator, his son-in-law Pi ankh. Herihor placed himself in charge of reburial proceedings at the Valley of the Kings, affording himself ample opportunity to pilfer on a grand scale.  His tomb has never been found. When and if it is, many scholars believe that the missing treasures of many of Egypt’s pharaohs will finally see the light of day.

7 ) King Solomon’s Treasure

A COLLECTION of sacred artifacts looted by the Romans from the Temple of Jerusalem and long suspected of being hidden in the vaults of the Vatican are actually in the Holy Land, according to a British archaeologist.Sean Kingsley, a specialist in the Holy Land, claims to have discovered what became of the collection, which is widely regarded as the greatest of biblical treasures and includes silver trumpets that would have heralded the Coming of the Messiah.The trumpets, gold candelabra and the bejeweled Table of the Divine Presence were among pieces shipped to Rome after the looting in AD70 of the Temple, the most sacred building in the ancient Jewish faith.

After a decade of research into previously untapped ancient texts and archaeological sources, Dr Kingsley has reconstructed the treasure’s route for the first time in 2,000 years to provide evidence that it left Rome in the 5th century. He has discovered that it was taken to Carthage, Constantinople and Algeria before being hidden in the Judaean wilderness, beneath the Monastery of Theodosius.Dr Kingsley said: The treasure resonates fiercely across modern politics.

8 ) The Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant is a vessel described in the Bible as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed, along with Aaron’s rod and manna. According to the Pentateuch, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accord with Moses’ prophetic vision on Mount Sinai. The Ark remains a topic of study even today, over 2000 years after it was last seen. A great deal of research has attempted to explain the wonders that are attributed to the Ark in the Bible.

One recent study suggests the possibility that the Ark represented man’s first harnessing of electricity. The accounts given of peoples’ sudden deaths from touching the Ark are consistent with death by a high voltage, lethal electrical charge. Such a charge could have resulted from the constant exposure of the box to static electricity, which builds up quickly in a hot, dry climate like the Middle East. The materials that the Ark was made of further support this theory: gold is one of the most powerful electrical conductors, and wood is an excellent insulator.

9 ) Treasures of Lima

The Treasure of Lima is a treasure reputedly removed from Lima, Peru in 1820 and never recovered. Since the 16th century, when Spain defeated the Inca, it controlled Lima. During the next centuries, the Catholic Church gathered a huge treasure in Lima. In the early 19th century, Spain began to have difficulties with its colonies due to wars of independence in South America. Lima was no exception and in 1820 the city came under heavy pressure and finally had to be evacuated.

The “Loot of Lima” was estimated at over $60,000, which came from the cathedral. Among the treasure were two life-sized statues of the Blessed Virgin holding the Divine Child. Both of these statues were made from pure gold. Other treasures included jeweled stones and candlesticks. The thought of just how much this treasure could mean to one person, Captain Thompson had all the passengers aboard Mary Dear killed. He then headed to Cocos Island. Cocos Island is around 400 miles from the coast of Costa Rica where he buried the treasure in a cave.

10 ) Yamashita’s Treasure

Yamashita’s gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Japanese forces during World War II and hidden in caves, tunnels and underground complexes in the Philippines.The two ships that were sunk by the Americans were leaving the bay presumably after they had unloaded all the treasure.  Today, there are many resorts along this bay and many believe that the treasure is still there but since the terrain has changed, it could be underwater caves.

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