A few of them succeeded in getting rich, but most of them were either crazy or died suddenly in a foreign land, and there was not even a tombstone on their graves.
All this can't stop adventurers from continuing to take risks. After the discovery of Titanic, there was an unprecedented treasure hunt. It is said that there are still eight treasures in the world, and treasure hunters have been looking for them since ancient times, waiting for the lucky ones to find them.
The most valuable wealth
Compared with this treasure, the gold and silver treasure on the "Atocha" is really dwarfed. Its location is about 740 feet deep in the Caribbean, about 16 miles from the Colombian coast.
1708 On May 28th, the Spanish galleon "San Jose" set sail from Panama, full of gold bars, silver bars, gold coins, wine glasses, table lamps, altar supplies and jewels. The captain of "San Jose" is Fenander. Although he knew that the British navy general Wiggle was leading a powerful fleet to patrol nearby, Fenander didn't take this threat to heart. He naively thinks that "the sea is so vast that it won't happen by accident."
On June 8, Wiig's British naval fleet stopped at San Jose. That night, the San Jose was sunk, and more than 600 people on board and all the gold, silver and jewels sank to the bottom of the sea.
1983, Colombian minister of public works Sylvia persuaded the Colombian president to officially declare that "San Jose" is a national property of Colombia and does not belong to those "insatiable treasure hunters".
The Colombian government is convinced that the location of the sunken ship has been found. The Colombian government may salvage this year, with an estimated cost as high as $30 million, but the treasure on board is estimated to be worth at least $654.38 billion.
California gold treasure
In 1849, gold mines were discovered in California, and a large number of eastern Americans flocked to California to dig for gold mines. Eight years later, they were ready to go home with the California gold they had dug up.
They took a boat from San Francisco to Panama, then crossed the isthmus of Panama by mule car, and then took a boat to new york.
However, their ship "China America" was hit by a hurricane two days after it left Havana, that is,1September 857 10. Under the storm, the ship began to enter the water.
There are 750 passengers on board. They were shocked to see that the sails were blown off by the strong wind and the boiler went out. They quickly formed a self-help team to send women and children to lifeboats. As a result, all the women and children were rescued, but 423 men were buried at the bottom of the sea.
Treasure expert Spencer once found several ships that sank in the American Civil War. He has spent 15 years looking for this sunken ship, and he is sure that he has found the position of the sunken Sino-American. He hopes to rescue this batch of gold within two years.
Treasure at the bottom of the lake at the end of rainbow
"The heir to the throne was covered with gold powder ... his people presented gold treasures at his feet ... the new Indian king threw all the gold at his feet into the lake as a dedication to God." This is the traditional coronation ceremony of King Musca described by the nephew of the last king of Colombian Musca Indians at the beginning of17th century.
In the past 400 years, Europeans have been trying to salvage what Indians threw into Lake GuaDavida. The first salvage operation was in 1545, and the Spanish organized a treasure hunt team to salvage hundreds of gold wares from the bottom of the shallow lake within three months.
19 1 1 year, a British company dug a tunnel to drain the lake, but left thick silt, which was quickly turned into hard mud bricks by the sun. By the time these Englishmen brought drilling equipment from Europe, the tunnel had been blocked and the lake was full of water. Since 1974, the Colombian government has sent troops to protect Gua Davida Lake and its treasures, and no one has been able to touch these treasures since then.
Often take tomb treasures.
Four centuries ago, an Indian village head led a young Spanish businessman through an intricate underground maze to the king's mausoleum, which was often buried in ruins in the capital of the ancient Inca kingdom. It is full of gold and jewels, including some Huang Jinyu with emerald eyes. The village chief told the Spanish businessman named Guterres that as long as he helped build local public works, all the gold would be his.
According to the Spanish tax record of 1576, Guterres reported the discovery of this "small fish" treasure to the king of Spain and donated 900 pounds of gold as tax. Since then, it has been pointed out that there is a "big fish" treasure under the local ruins, in which more golden animals are buried.
At present, this ruin has been protected by the Peruvian government, and two Peruvian archaeologists have been digging in the area for several years. Maybe one day they will dig up a lot of treasures.
Columbus' shipwreck
1492, Columbus led 27 sailboats to discover America, and sent some sailboats back to Europe in 1493, 1498 and 1502 respectively. Archaeologists believe that five of them sank in the Caribbean for some reason. Although there are no gold and jewels on these sunken ships, they are of high historical value.
The Texas Institute of Marine Archaeology has asked the Haitian government to allow these sunken ships to be salvaged in its territorial waters. Although the local seabed is dark and the mud is deep, and the sunken ships have accumulated for five centuries, the research is confident that one of the sunken ships will be salvaged before the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage.
Treasure of Matecumbe
The famous classical novel Treasure Island is said to be set in Cocoa Island in the Pacific Ocean. This desolate island is a treasure spot that has been thoroughly searched by most treasure hunters. In the past three centuries, about 450 treasure-hunting teams landed on this small island and dug along its coast to find ancient gold coins.
Cocoa Island is located 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica. It's a rest stop for pirates in the17th century. It is said that there are six treasures buried on the island. But what attracts treasure hunters most is the treasure in Lima, Peru. 1820, Lima was still the outpost of the Spanish Empire, but the revolutionary army led by the Peruvian national hero Bolí var was about to invade Lima. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Governor of Lima, Spain, quickly boarded the sailboat "Dear Mary" and ran away. There is a gold candlestick, a gold plate and a life-size statue of the Golden Virgin on board. But the Scottish captain killed the Spanish governor halfway and hid the gold on board in a cave on Cocoa Island. The captain of Scotland later died in 1844, and there was no chance to go back and take his treasure.
Fortunately, like all treasure hunting stories, the captain left a treasure map.
This map and many treasure maps circulated later attracted many treasure hunters to Cocoa Island, which lasted until the mid-20th century.
From 65438 to 0978, the Costa Rican government closed Cocoa Island on the grounds that digging treasures would destroy the ecological environment and no one was allowed to dig.
"money pit" treasure
Mark Twain, a famous American writer, described in The Adventures of Tom Sona that all the treasures of pirates were "packed in a broken wooden box and buried under an old dead tree. In the middle of the night, the place where the shadow of the branches of this dead tree falls is the place where the treasure is hidden. " The situation he described is almost a replica of the treasure of the money pit.
10 In June, three young loggers boarded the small island Oak Island near Nova Scotia. Although Oak Island is uninhabited, it is said that treasures have been buried on the island since ancient times. Three young people noticed that there was a big oak tree on the island and a branch was sawed off. The soil under the tree sank a little, as if something was buried under it.
The next day, three young people returned to the island with a round shovel and began to dig. Digging to a depth of 10 feet, they found an oak board. Dig down again to a depth of 20 feet and touch another oak board.
They dug for seven days, and every time they dug down 10 feet, they met something to stop them. When digging to a depth of 100 feet, the pit suddenly flooded with 60 feet of seawater. From then until now, someone has carried out 15 excavations, * * * spent 3 million dollars, and 6 people were killed on the way to the bottom of the "money pit" (it is said that 7 people must die to uncover the secret of the "money pit").
What's under the money pit? No one knows, but everyone is guessing: including the trophy of Captain Kidd of CNR, the treasure of pirates, the gold of ancient Inca Empire, etc.
Damn Arizona gold mine
Somewhere in the superstitious mountain of Arizona, the "lost Dutch gold mine" is waiting for you to mine.
1840 At the end of the year, an explorer named Beretta discovered a rich gold mine in this mountainous area, and he marked it. Since then, many treasure hunters have been trying to find this gold mine. Many people were buried in the mountains, and some people were killed by Indians.
Later, a German explorer Walter finally discovered this gold mine. And Wordsworth's two companions knew the location of the gold mine. They were all killed. It is said that Wordsworth often goes to the mountains for two or three days, and when he returns to his hometown in Phoenix, he always brings back several bags of high-quality gold mines.
189 1 year, Wordsworth died of pneumonia. It is said that he drew a map before he died. 193 1 year, a man named Ruth entered the mountainous area of superstitious mountain with a map. Six months later, his skull was found in the mountains and he was shot twice in the head. 1959, three more people were killed in this mountain area. But all this can't stop the treasure hunters. Despite the high temperature of 1 10 degrees and fierce rattlesnakes in summer, many treasure hunters still venture into the mountains to find treasure.