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Odyssey Treasure Case Will Continue Its’ Search for a Verdict »

Taking steps that could be considered more procedural in impact, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made several rulings in relationship to the Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. The Unidentified Shipwrecked Vessel (Spain) case.
As you may recall from past HuntTreasure.net articles, this series of events started in May of 2007, when the [...]

Times Change…, and Yet They Don’t »

Many years have passed since the 1849 California Gold Rush near Sacramento, 158 in fact. These were the days long before the inventions of the light bulb or the automobile. The United States Civil War was still 12 years off, and California was not even a state yet.
Life was difficult for a majority of Americans. [...]

Take It To The Dump Or The Museum? »

We have all heard stories about valuable finds located in rummage sales, thrift shops or even along side the street waiting to go to the dump.  Remember the HuntTreasure.net news account of the painting “Tres personajes” or “Three People”.
This 1970 work by Rufino Tamayo, was bought for $1,049,000 at an auction by Sothbeys.  Only a couple of years [...]

Old Man River Gives Up His Treasure »

The Mississippi, Missouri, St. Lawrence and Hudson; these are just a couple of America’s great rivers that served as roadways to multiple tons of potential treasure.
In the time of the fictional characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, steamships were the mainstay of trade up and down the river.
This meant that cargo for all walks of [...]