these treasures remain unfound but not
unwanted welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 lost treasures in the world
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most valuable and/or famous caches
of treasure that remain hidden or that
have been lost to the world we won’t be
including treasures or locations that
most agree are fictional like the sunken
Atlantis it’s gotta be number 10 the Oak
Island money pit located on an island
off the coast of Nova Scotia Canada the
Oak Island money pit is a mysterious pit
of loose soil that is among the most
excavated treasure sites in the world
and has even obsessed famous people like
US President Franklin D Roosevelt
various stones and markers in the
location have given strong hints about
possible buried treasure
over the years the stories of what these
supposed treasure actually is have
varied wildly ranging from a pirate
horde belonging to Captain Kidd or
Blackbeard to Shakespearean folios to
Royal jewels whatever its contents the
money pit remains an enduring and
enticing mystery number 9 the missing
Kruger Millions the Boers were the South
African descendants of Dutch settlers
when they fought the British in the
second anglo-boer war and realized they
would lose the war and be overrun it
reportedly prompted Boer leaders to
gather as much gold and diamonds as they
could supposedly the last president of
Boer era South Africa Paul Kruger hid
this treasure well in South Africa
before fleeing the country in today’s
currency the value of the gold is
estimated at around half a billion
dollars while parts of the gold may have
been found over the years the total
truth of those claims has not been
verified and the treasure remains
unaccounted for number 8 the treasure of
the copper scroll
the oldest treasure on our list the
copper scroll is one of the famous Dead
Sea Scrolls and is completely unique
compared to the rest as it’s essentially
a treasure map recorded on it are dozens
of sites where gold and silver
hidden by the crafters of the scroll who
are thought to be members of an early
Jewish temple or military group the
directions are written in such a way
that they assume that any readers would
be familiar with the locations described
but considering the fact that the
locales are over 2,000 years out-of-date
this makes finding the treasures
borderline impossible number seven the
victoria peak treasure in the state of
new mexico in the 1930s a man named doc
nas claimed to found a huge cache of
gold bars or rods in the mountains of
victoria peak while hiking the claim has
never been proven after removing some
treasure nas later returned to the cave
where he’d found it and tried to use
dynamite to widen the narrow entrance
predictably NASA’s efforts only served
to seal up the cave since then many have
tried to rediscover the treasure
including the US Army during the 1950s
nuclear tests however the Gold’s
location as well as its origins remains
a buried secret to this day number 6
Forrest Fenn’s million dollar buried
treasure Forrest Fenn is a controversial
art and antiquities dealer after being
diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s Fenn
decided to bury roughly a million
dollars worth of treasure in a chest
somewhere in the Rocky Mountains he
survived his cancer but later buried the
treasure anyway Fenn has put out an
enigmatic poem containing hints about
where the treasure can be found
according to Fenn when the growing value
of the chests contents reaches ten
million dollars he will unearth it
nevertheless the story and riddle map
have inspired many to search for it and
several people have even died in their
pursuit of Fenn’s treasure number five
the lost Faberge eggs blue pepper is a
egg the world-famous Faberge eggs are a
group of exquisite ornaments shaped like
eggs and made from items like gold glass
and enamel often encrusted with jewels
the majority of them were made for the
Russian royal family although a few
others were made for select individuals
when the Russian Revolution toppled the
monarchy in Russia some of the eggs were
stored securely while some were later
sold or lost currently seven of the
Faberge eggs are unaccounted for
but there
still hope that they may be found after
all there have been several finds in
recent years number four the Amber Room
considered one of the wonders of the
world by some the Amber Room was an
elegant room constructed of gold jewels
and as its name implies Amber paneling
first built for a palace in Prussia the
room was later moved to Russia but was
taken by Germany during the Second World
War in the chaos surrounding the end of
the war the Amber Room was lost most
signs point to it being somewhere in
Central Europe and its value is
estimated to be around 200 million
dollars at least while only time will
tell if the room can be found again a
recreation was recently unveiled in
Russia made from comparable materials
number three the Lufthansa heist and
these are the guys that Jimmy put
together for what turned out to be the
biggest heist in American history made
particularly famous in pop culture in
the great Martin Scorsese movie
Goodfellas the Lufthansa heist is
believed to be the largest cash robbery
in American history cash and jewels
worth over 21 million dollars in today’s
currency were stolen from a Lufthansa
Cargo building at JFK Airport in 1978
despite being one of the most thoroughly
investigated crimes in the United States
none of the stolen money or jewels has
ever been recovered why is this been the
case
well perhaps due to the heists architect
gangster Jimmy Burke making most
brutally certain that there were no
information leaks number two the
treasure of the fleur de la Mod the
floor did amount of was a Portuguese
warship that was wrecked off the coast
of Sumatra according to historical
accounts the vessel was laden with the
largest treasure ever collected by that
nation’s Navy composed of valuables
taken from Malacca what’s now Malaysia
as well as tribute from the King of Siam
what’s now Thailand the total value is
estimated to exceed
two and a half billion dollars making it
one of the greatest unfound sunken
treasures in the world along with
Spain’s famous lost 1715 treasure fleet
number one the treasure of the Knights
Templar the Knights Templar was a
Christian military order that accrued a
huge amount of wealth in part due to
using a primitive kind of banking in
addition the order was supposedly also
entrusted with many legendary religious
relics such as the Holy Grail and the
Ark of the Covenant when the Knights
Templar fell out of favor
they were demonized and many of their
assets were seized however much of their
treasure remains lost and while it’s
hard to say where it is or how much it’s
worth
it could easily be in the billions or if
they truly had holy objects priceless do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
unwanted welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 lost treasures in the world
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most valuable and/or famous caches
of treasure that remain hidden or that
have been lost to the world we won’t be
including treasures or locations that
most agree are fictional like the sunken
Atlantis it’s gotta be number 10 the Oak
Island money pit located on an island
off the coast of Nova Scotia Canada the
Oak Island money pit is a mysterious pit
of loose soil that is among the most
excavated treasure sites in the world
and has even obsessed famous people like
US President Franklin D Roosevelt
various stones and markers in the
location have given strong hints about
possible buried treasure
over the years the stories of what these
supposed treasure actually is have
varied wildly ranging from a pirate
horde belonging to Captain Kidd or
Blackbeard to Shakespearean folios to
Royal jewels whatever its contents the
money pit remains an enduring and
enticing mystery number 9 the missing
Kruger Millions the Boers were the South
African descendants of Dutch settlers
when they fought the British in the
second anglo-boer war and realized they
would lose the war and be overrun it
reportedly prompted Boer leaders to
gather as much gold and diamonds as they
could supposedly the last president of
Boer era South Africa Paul Kruger hid
this treasure well in South Africa
before fleeing the country in today’s
currency the value of the gold is
estimated at around half a billion
dollars while parts of the gold may have
been found over the years the total
truth of those claims has not been
verified and the treasure remains
unaccounted for number 8 the treasure of
the copper scroll
the oldest treasure on our list the
copper scroll is one of the famous Dead
Sea Scrolls and is completely unique
compared to the rest as it’s essentially
a treasure map recorded on it are dozens
of sites where gold and silver
hidden by the crafters of the scroll who
are thought to be members of an early
Jewish temple or military group the
directions are written in such a way
that they assume that any readers would
be familiar with the locations described
but considering the fact that the
locales are over 2,000 years out-of-date
this makes finding the treasures
borderline impossible number seven the
victoria peak treasure in the state of
new mexico in the 1930s a man named doc
nas claimed to found a huge cache of
gold bars or rods in the mountains of
victoria peak while hiking the claim has
never been proven after removing some
treasure nas later returned to the cave
where he’d found it and tried to use
dynamite to widen the narrow entrance
predictably NASA’s efforts only served
to seal up the cave since then many have
tried to rediscover the treasure
including the US Army during the 1950s
nuclear tests however the Gold’s
location as well as its origins remains
a buried secret to this day number 6
Forrest Fenn’s million dollar buried
treasure Forrest Fenn is a controversial
art and antiquities dealer after being
diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s Fenn
decided to bury roughly a million
dollars worth of treasure in a chest
somewhere in the Rocky Mountains he
survived his cancer but later buried the
treasure anyway Fenn has put out an
enigmatic poem containing hints about
where the treasure can be found
according to Fenn when the growing value
of the chests contents reaches ten
million dollars he will unearth it
nevertheless the story and riddle map
have inspired many to search for it and
several people have even died in their
pursuit of Fenn’s treasure number five
the lost Faberge eggs blue pepper is a
egg the world-famous Faberge eggs are a
group of exquisite ornaments shaped like
eggs and made from items like gold glass
and enamel often encrusted with jewels
the majority of them were made for the
Russian royal family although a few
others were made for select individuals
when the Russian Revolution toppled the
monarchy in Russia some of the eggs were
stored securely while some were later
sold or lost currently seven of the
Faberge eggs are unaccounted for
but there
still hope that they may be found after
all there have been several finds in
recent years number four the Amber Room
considered one of the wonders of the
world by some the Amber Room was an
elegant room constructed of gold jewels
and as its name implies Amber paneling
first built for a palace in Prussia the
room was later moved to Russia but was
taken by Germany during the Second World
War in the chaos surrounding the end of
the war the Amber Room was lost most
signs point to it being somewhere in
Central Europe and its value is
estimated to be around 200 million
dollars at least while only time will
tell if the room can be found again a
recreation was recently unveiled in
Russia made from comparable materials
number three the Lufthansa heist and
these are the guys that Jimmy put
together for what turned out to be the
biggest heist in American history made
particularly famous in pop culture in
the great Martin Scorsese movie
Goodfellas the Lufthansa heist is
believed to be the largest cash robbery
in American history cash and jewels
worth over 21 million dollars in today’s
currency were stolen from a Lufthansa
Cargo building at JFK Airport in 1978
despite being one of the most thoroughly
investigated crimes in the United States
none of the stolen money or jewels has
ever been recovered why is this been the
case
well perhaps due to the heists architect
gangster Jimmy Burke making most
brutally certain that there were no
information leaks number two the
treasure of the fleur de la Mod the
floor did amount of was a Portuguese
warship that was wrecked off the coast
of Sumatra according to historical
accounts the vessel was laden with the
largest treasure ever collected by that
nation’s Navy composed of valuables
taken from Malacca what’s now Malaysia
as well as tribute from the King of Siam
what’s now Thailand the total value is
estimated to exceed
two and a half billion dollars making it
one of the greatest unfound sunken
treasures in the world along with
Spain’s famous lost 1715 treasure fleet
number one the treasure of the Knights
Templar the Knights Templar was a
Christian military order that accrued a
huge amount of wealth in part due to
using a primitive kind of banking in
addition the order was supposedly also
entrusted with many legendary religious
relics such as the Holy Grail and the
Ark of the Covenant when the Knights
Templar fell out of favor
they were demonized and many of their
assets were seized however much of their
treasure remains lost and while it’s
hard to say where it is or how much it’s
worth
it could easily be in the billions or if
they truly had holy objects priceless do
you agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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