scams Scammers with fake treasure maps con victims out of $1.32 million Allan Rose Hill

treasure Treasure hunter dug 130-feet-deep hole in his kitchen seeking pot of gold but fell to his death David Pescovitz

gold Amateur gold digger finds $160,000 nugget David Pescovitz

facial recognition Stolen guitar recovered after 45 years using facial recognition technology Thom Dunn

finders keepers Woman hired treasure hunter who found a rumored $46,000 hidden in her family's home for 50 years David Pescovitz

archaeology Man with metal detector discovers a hoard of Bronze Age artifacts in a field David Pescovitz

booze Divers retrieve hundreds of bottles of booze from a World War I shipwreck David Pescovitz

mushrooms Game of Shrooms returns on June 14, 2025 Jennifer Sandlin

shipwreck Authorities forbid drinking ancient champagne found in shipwreck Rob Beschizza

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History Treasure hunters have re-discovered a long lost piece of Henry VIII's crown Thom Dunn

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occult Touch Me Not, a surreal 18th century manual on how to raise the Devil, and then send him treasure hunting Gareth Branwyn

gold FBI on the scene where legendary Civil War treasure of $54 million in gold may be buried David Pescovitz

siberia A trip to Siberia inspired "Madness Treads Lightly" Polina Dashkova

books Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye: A Novel Mark Frauenfelder

books Whimsical treasure hunt turns into a grim search-and-rescue Cory Doctorow