TREASURE HUNTING IN THE NEWS

UPDATED MARCH 8, 1996


  • PEASANT REVOLT IN THE FIELDS OF ENGLAND
    Brits to change treasure hunting laws

  • UNEARTHED POT YIELDS SCIENTIFIC GOLD
    U.S. Civil War artifacts and search for buried treasure

  • CONCH REPUBLIC SPLITOVER SANCTUARY PLAN
    Florida Keys controversy continues

  • CASTLE RUIN TO EXCAVATED IN SEARCH OF TREASURE
    Cuba Island of shipwrecks and lost treasure

  • RAISE THE ORCA!
    One man dreams of recovering 19th century whaling ship

  • METAL DETECTING: A LOST AND FOUND ADVENTURE
    Tulsan's hobby a real treasure

  • RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCY TO SELL HI-TECH PHOTOS...LOCATE GOLD
    Photos identify location of mineral deposits

  • SEA QUEST DIVES INTO HISTORY
    French shipwreck found off coast

  • LAKE CHAMPLAIN TREASURES
    Great lakes treasure


    UPDATED FEBRUARY 10, 1996


  • TREASURE SEEKERS HUNT $2 BILLION IN GOLD
    Columbia guards area where galleon sank

  • OIL MAN'S CLAIM TO GOLD FROM SHIPWRECK DISMISSED
    Court throws out case

  • WORLD WAR II SHIPWRECK TROVE TO BE AUCTIONED
    Rare jewels go on the auction block

  • WRECK OF THE GENERAL GRANT FOUND?
    Australian treasure wreck

  • GOLD GOES TO SALVORS
    Supreme Court throws out Underwriters claims

  • MORE ON: WORLD WAR II, JAPANESE TREASURE SUB
    Updated info on treasure sub


    UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 1995


  • BLACK BEARD'S WANDERING GHOST & LOST TREASURE
    Lore or Lost Treasure

  • BUSINESSMAN SUES TO CLAIM GOLD ON SUNKEN SUB
    Controversy Over World War II Treasure

  • STOCKPILE OF INDIAN ARTIFACTS RECOVERED
    Looters caught

  • METAL DETECTING: HEIRLOOM RETURNED
    Good Samaritan Returns Lost Ring

  • TWLIGHT ZONE: SUNKEN STEAM BOAT MAY SURFACE
    Steam Boat may be recovered

  • BELLEVUE SHIP MAY CARRY 200 MILLION IN GOLD
    Washington State Shipwreck may Contain Treasure

  • POT HUNTER JAILED
    Looter Jailed

  • LA SALLE'S SHIP ONE OF MANY MATAGORDA VICTIMS
    Legendary Explorers Shipwreck Located

  • COMPANIES SEEKING SHIPWRECKS TREASURE
    SeaHawk Joint Venture

  • LEGENDARY OCEAN LINER BELL CONTROVERSY
    Bell of Andrea Doria comes to rest

  • MALI STRUGGLES TO SAVE TREASURES
    Looters Ravaging Country


    UPDATED OCTOBER 17, 1995


  • SCOTTISH RIVER KEEPS ITS TREASURE
    Charles I's Silver Service aboard

  • GREEK DIVERS TELL OF FINDING TITANIC'S SUNKEN SISTER
    HMS Britanic found in Greek waters

  • MEDIEVAL BROOCH BELONGS TO COUNCIL, NOT FINDER
    Metal Detecting: England: Ruling against finder

  • SALVAGING GHOSTLY TREASURE
    Steamship Brother Jonathan

  • TREASURE IS HIS BUSINESS
    Investors surface for Bellevue venture

  • HISTORY RISING FROM THE BAYS MURKY DEPTHS
    La Salle ship one of many Matagorda victims

  • GROUP BEGINS SEARCH FOR REMAINS OF SPANISH GALLEON
    Search for Spanish Treasure Galleon, Nuestra Senors de la Concepcion

  • SCIENTISTS SEEK MORE "TREASURE" FROM CAVES
    More scrolls found in the Dead Sea area


    UPDATED JULY 31, 1995


  • LOST JAPANESE SUB WITH NAZI GOLD FOUND AT SEA
    Japanese Submarine I-52 was carrying more than Two Tons of Gold

  • THE HIGH-TECH HUNT FOR THE GOLDEN SUB: COLD WAR'S KEY TO FINDING JAPANESE CRAFT AND AXIS LOOT
    More on Japanese sub I-52

  • HIGH-TECH HUNTERS CLOSE IN ON LOST SUB
    More on Japanese treasure sub

  • COIN FOUND IN PENSACOLA BAY LINKED TO SPANISH EXPLORERS
    A 15th-century coin found on Spanish galleon wreck

  • TREASURE HUNT AT THE ALAMO
    Treasure Hunt at the Alamo: Is legendary silver lurking under well?

  • AN OCEAN OF MYSTERY SURROUNDS SUNKEN SHIP
    Wreck of the Sindia off Ocen City, New Jersey may hold treasure


    UPDATED JUNE 31, 1995



  • STRANGE TALES OF SPANISH TREASURE
    Walkers Cay, Bahamas: Strange tales of Spanish doubloons and pieces-of-eight

  • THEY SALVAGED HISTORY
    Group recovers WW II aircraft from Greenland ice

  • TREASURE HUNTERS TALE
    Treasure hunters tale rivals Indiana Jones, includes escape from armed terrorists

  • BULGARIA: EL DORADO FOR TREASURE SMUGGLERS
    Organized smugglers move millions in treasure

  • TREASURE HUNTERS RICH WITH OPTIMISM
    Treasure hunter searching Haiti for shipwrecks

  • SURPRISE: THIEVES' TAKE WAS FAKE
    Thieves steal fake museum treasure

  • TWO ANCIENT SITES TO BE EXCAVATED
    Colorado anthropologists to excavate several sites near Gunnison, Colorado

  • SPACE RADAR PROBES JUNGLE
    Hi-tech treasure hunting?

  • ENGINEER FINDS CLUES TO GRAND MAYAN BRIDGE
    Guatemala: Amateur archalogist uncovers what may be an ancient suspension bridge

  • SALVOR FIGHTS STATE FOR RIGHT TO GO AFTER SUNKEN TREASURE
    Salvor goes after legendary $400 million in gold from Lake Michigan shipwreck

  • AZORES TREASURE IN REACH
    Azores opens doors to treasure hunters

  • UNEARTHING CLUES TO BIBLICAL MYSTERIES
    Archaeologists discovering secrets in the sands of the mideast that shed light on sacred writings

  • TREASURE FEVER GRIPS IRELAND
    Old "masters" paintings worth $60 million may be raised intact from the wreck of the Lusitania

    UPDATED MAY 1995


  • DIVERS CLAIM CAPT. LAWRENCE
    Divers claim title to the Captain Lawrence a ship once used by treasure hunters.

  • WORLD WAR II PLATINUM SEIZED
    Legendary Yamashita Treasure Found in the Phillipines?

  • ONLY TRACES OF PLATINUM FOUND
    Only traces of platinum found in Manila 'treasure'. It seemed too good to be true

  • TROPICAL STORMS BOON TO FLORIDA TR. HUNTERS
    Spanish coins from sunken ships are washed ashore

  • BUDDIHIST TEMPLE FOUND
    Archaeologists unearth the remains of the earliests Buddhist Temple found in China.

  • LUSITANIA SITE CHALLENGED
    Fight over who owns the Lusitania

    UPDATED MARCH 1995


    HANOI: Two unlucky treasure seekers ended up paying out rather than cashing in when they were detained by Vietnamese authorities off the coast of Kien Giang province.
  • MORE RUINS FOUND
    The sixth Sino-Japanese joint expedition to the Niya ruins since 1988 has found several more ruined houses.
  • LEGENDARY, TREASURE-LADEN GALLEON MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND
    A small cache of emeralds, gold and silver coins was found in the sunken remains of an 18th-century Spanish galleon near Bimini
  • SHIPWRECK HUNTING FIRM SETTLES WITH SEC
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A Tampa treasure hunting firm settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday that it overstated the value of gold, pearls and other Spanish valuables found off the Florida coast.
  • MALACCA WANTS AREA AROUND ANCIENT WRECK TO BE A SECURITY ZONE
    The Straits Times
  • CELTIC SYMBOL LEADS TO SILVER MINE
    An identified Celtic cup and saucer petroglyph, a symbol known to identify mineral locations, has lead a research team to the remains of what may be a very rich silver location.
  • PETROGLYPH HAS IMPORTANT DUAL MEANING
    Since ongoing examination of one major petroglyph site, on private property, continues to yield surprising results and answers.
  • SALVAGE FIRM SOLD 200 YEAR OLD GOLD CANNON TO FINANCE OPERATIONS
    PORT DICKSON - A company which allegedly carried out illegal salvage work off the coast of Tanjung Tuan has sold a 200 year old gold cannon and several other artifacts to finance its operations further, according to a former director of the company.
  • GOLD FEVER IN THE HEART OF ENGLAND
    EUROPE'S BIGGEST TREASURE HUNT IS EXPECTED TO
    INSPIRE THOUSANDS TO FRENZIED SEARCHING.
    TREASURE hunting is back with a vengeance.
  • U-BOAT SITE TO BE MADE UNDERWATER PRESERVE
    Maryland is creating an underwater archaeological preserve
  • THE TREASURE HUNT: CHICAGOAN TO SEARCH FOR GENGHIS KHAN'S TOMB
    THE WASHINGTON POST
    A commodities trader named Maury Kravitz thinks he knows a secret 2,800 people died to keep
  • COLOMBIA BATTLES FOR BULLION: $3 BILLION IN GOLD AND JEWELS AT STAKE IN FIGHT OVER SUNKEN SPANISH GALLEON
    A pitched battle is being waged over 43 billion worth gold and jewels believed lying in the San Jose, a sunken spanish galleon
  • `OWNING' THE TITANIC
    The "unsinkable" Titanic struck an iceberg 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and sank on April 14, 1912
  • AGENCY ACTS TO THWART LOOTERS: UNPROTECTED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES TO
    BE DROPPED FROM MAPS.

    WASHINGTON - Responding to pleas from historians and Indian tribes, the U.S. Geological Survey is dropping from its maps archaeological sites that are not protected by governmental or private agencies.
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