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The last thing you’d expect to form in the back of your mind while reading an archaeological article is a funny Bud-Light commercial.
Yet, it’s hard not to when reading this one …
First, just the facts:

An ancient site in Ireland
Approximately 3,000 years old
The focus is around a stone-mound, one of many such sites [...]

Van Gogh was an artist who created some enormously famous paintings and his name is known throughout the world.
While Vincent van Gogh only lived to be 37 and really only began as an artist toward the last ten years of his life, he produced more than 2,000 pieces of art.

Given the nature HuntTreasure, it just wouldn’t seem right if we didn’t at least talk a little bit about the movie, National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.
The movie premiered in New York on Dec. 17 and opened nationally in the US on Friday, the 21st. Up to the 24th, the movie had already found [...]

An original Magna Carta went up for sale December 18 at Sotheby’s. Although it didn’t fetch the upper end of the $30 million potential estimate, it was sold for a tidy sum of $21.3 million.
The 13 century document brought rights to subjects under English rule and was the foundation of many [...]

Back in 1701 Captain William Kidd was convicted of piracy and hung by the neck - twice in fact, since the hangman’s rope broke the first time.
The legendary Captain Kidd had actually sailed to his death. However, not on a ship and sunk in any battle, but on a trip to New York [...]

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. [...]

As rare as it is important, an original copy of the Magna Carta is up for sale. And if you have to ask how much, there’s a good chance it’s beyond your spending budget.
But then, very few in the world could acquire such a historical treasure even if they had the money.

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 [...]

Miami, Florida (US)  —   There’s been an interesting series of twists and turns in the struggle between Odyssey Marine Exploration, a Florida based company that specializes in deep ocean shipwreck exploration, and the Spanish government.
Earlier this year Odyssey discovered and recovered a huge haul - apparently 17 tons - of silver and gold [...]

Rome, Italy  —  Archaeologists in Rome believe they may have found the mythical cave, Lupercale, where a she-wolf nursed the twins, Romulous and Remus.
If you’re familiar with the mythical history of Rome, you’ll remember Romulous and Remus were the twin sons of the war god Mars and the mortal priestess Rhea Silvia.

Overton, Wrexham (UK)  —   A man with his metal detector discovered a 17th century gold coin-like object on farm land in Wrexham, North Wales.
It’s similar in appearance to a coin, but has a small whole as if made to hang from a chain. That and its design helped identify its true [...]

Oregon (U.S.)  —   Whether you hunt wild game or treasure, it’s not only common sense, but just plain good manners to ask for permission to use someone’s land.
When it comes to your own land, you expect your rights, like hunting for treasure, are on a firm foundation. Of course, there’s some common sense [...]

Near perfect, that is, for a wooden ship that’s been lying on the floor of the Baltic Sea for several hundred years.
The shipwreck wasn’t purposely found but discovered by a TV crew working on an underwater documentary series. The crew works for Swedish public broadcaster SVT.
What’s unusual about the find is the [...]

Can life get any better than that?
For sure and hands down, driving a D9T Caterpillar and prospecting for gold has got to be more fun than pencil pushing Wall Street numbers.
And if you’re in the wilds of Alaska, you better go cowboy style and side-strap a .50-caliber Smith & Wesson. You [...]

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 [...]

Take yourself through a mental journey reaching back 2,400 years. Picture yourself on a ship riding the high sees. Got it? Okay. Let’s move on…
It’s early evening and you’re thinking and dreading the monotonous dinner that’s always served.
You find yourself a place to eat, and finally glance over at the meal being served. [...]

The prospect of digging around in dirt with a rake, shovel or some other tool doesn’t sound too attractive unless you’re getting paid or enjoy gardening.
On the other hand, if you’re prospecting for the chance at some gems and you’re doing it as part of a vacation trip, some adventure or just for the [...]

A Somerville, Tennessee man was having a gully leveled on his cattle farm when a bulldozer being used turned over a pile of debris.
The man, Doug Wiggington, grabbed a trash bag to pick up the mess and turned up an old, dirty bottle on his first grab.
It had an interesting amber color and [...]

It takes guts to buy anything at a flea market you’re going to sit or lay on each day. You just never know who or what has been there before you. And really scary, the "what" could still be there waiting to grab you unawares.
However, a Berlin student had the guts and [...]

Most everyone has heard the saying, "One man’s trash is another man’s treasure." Elizabeth Gibson was walking one morning when she found a piece of treasure in the trash.
That treasure turned out to be the famous painting, ‘Tres Personajes’ (Three People), by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo. The person who placed it in the trash [...]

The 1997 movie Titanic romanticized while also reflecting the tragedy of Titanic’s sinking and the loss of nearly 1,500 lives.
Now, thanks to the BBC, you can get a new perspective and rediscovery of Titanic and its wreckage that’s equally compelling, wondrous, and, yet, educational.

Who would ever think of coming Kansas wheat fields for rocks? And we’re not talking about normal rocks, but those of extraterrestrial origin. Or, more to the point, meteorites that plowed into those wheat fields thousands of years ago.
Two men, Phi Mani and Steve Arnold, did. They met several years back [...]

Torrential downpours can stir up lost treasure on land while severe drought can reveal old sunken boats and ships.
North Carolina has received the negative and positive of the latter - drought, being the obvious negative, and the uprising of a 1820’s boat in the Tar River being the positive.
The wooden boat is [...]

The island province of Gotland is a part of Sweden so when torrential rain pours down and unearths a few coins, you’d expect them to be of Swedish origin.
With two old coins emerging after the downpour, archaeologist interest perked up and exploration began.
The result? The discovery of 52 more coins. And more interesting, [...]

It’s not uncommon to find items of food within tombs, but the curiosity peaks when peanuts are found within one in China.
Peanuts are now very popular, but it was believed they were only first introduced to China from another land some 500 years ago.

Tidal currents slammed the Torrent, a square-rigged sailing vessel, into an Alaskan reef back in 1868. The crew escaped with their lives, but the ship was lost.
Fast forward 139 years and remnants of the old ship can once again be seen, and now in video no-less. That’s due to Steve Lloyd and his dive [...]

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