the story of treasure hunters,
who have yet to find any treasure, but how about this hoard
to look for, one of the largest treasures the ancient world had ever
known: half a million pounds of gold and a million pounds of silver, but
unlike Oak Island some of it has already been found, in Romania at Sarmizegetusa,
high in the central mountains, was once the capital and sacred centre
of the Dacians, a civilisation crushed by the Roman Emperor Trajan in
two bloody wars more than 1,900 years ago, the city levelled and forgotten
except by a few who still to this day dig in the steep valleys, the full extent
of the looting became clear some years ago, when some of the illegal excavators
were arrested and confessed to police, lot 26 as it was known of bracelets, they told
police, was found in 1998, on top of a hoard of a thousand gold coins, a small team of treasure hunters hit the mother lode in May 2000, according to
Romanian police, their metal detector pinged over a stone slab about two feet
wide, embedded in a steep hillside, underneath, in a small chamber made of flat
stones propped against each other,they found ten spiralling, elaborately
decorated Dacian bracelets, all solid gold, one weighed a hefty two and a half
pounds (1.2 kilogrammes), now this if it were legal is a treasure hunt I would really like to go
on!
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