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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