32 Bounties of Treasure That Went Missing Throughout History

‘The entirety of DB Cooper's loot’
32 Bounties of Treasure That Went Missing Throughout History
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I think there was a time in almost all of our childhoods where we really, truly thought that we would one day be in possession of a treasure map. We’d memorized all the rules, the meaning of “X” in that situation, etc. Unfortunately, in real life, the only papers you dramatically unfold are usually medical bills.

If you want to spend a little more time dreaming of unearthing ancient booty, though? There are indeed valuables in this world that have been lost to time, current locations unknown. A Reddit thread asked for historic mother lodes gone missing, and Redditors shared their favorites.

wyattkelly. 2 2y ago Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael. Missing since the end of ww2, all signs point to it having been sold for traveling money by Nazi Hans Frank.
Horriblealien . 2y ago The shipwreck of Flor de la Mar. Sunk with the equivalent of $2 billion in todays money.
HeartCrafty2961 2y ago A large part of Pompei. What they have excavated so far takes an hour to walk through, but a huge part of it remains hidden. This is because they've found that being discovered is causing more damage to the remains than 2,000 years of being hidden beneath the pumice and they're waiting for new technology to preserve it.
CanAhJustSay . 2y ago The missing Faberge eggs. There are about seven still missing, and only an old black and white photo remains of some of them, along with their descriptions.
. 2y ago I went to college beside that museum in Boston that got robbed. They never found the thieves or the paintings. The famous Gardner museum theft. No one knows what happened to the paintings still.
Sighconut23 . 2y ago Tomb of Alexander the Great. Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Funny thing is, there are all probably buried in Alexandria beneath the modern city.
Signguyqld49 . 2y ago King Johns Crown Jewels. Lost while crossing the Wash on the east coast of England. Over 800 years ago
2y ago This one really isn't talked about as much as it should. In 1996, billionaire couple Marvin and Kaye Lichtman who collected tons upon tons of priceless items art, chess sets, Faberge eggs, etc were murdered by a glass installer that they hired. Before burning the house down, the glass installer made off with as much of the couple's riches as he could haul away. Shortly after he tried to flee to avoid prosecution and before he was caught, 3 men involved with the salvage operation at the scene were arrested for peddling items that were salvaged and
Lil-Lanata 2y ago The three brothers An absolutely beautiful set of jewels that simply vanished from record, which is very surprising as they are beautiful and large!
thejoms . 2y ago Irish Crown Jewels.
Wolvercote . 2y ago Tomb of Genghis Khan
gbbmiler 2y ago The enormous golden menorah from the 2nd temple. The Romans took it after sacking Jerusalem. Some people think it's being hidden by the Vatican, but I think more likely it was melted down and will never be found.
stianh22 2y ago Olavsskrinet; The sarcophagus of Olav Haraldsson. Remember the christian viking from Vikings: Valhalla? Yeah, he was real. After his death, he became a saint and a bridge between old Norse faith and Christianity. Не was eventually laid to rest in a jewel adorned sarcophagus in the Nidaros cathedral. It was Northern Europes biggest destination for pilgrims until the reformation. When Norwegians broke with the catholic church, Olavsskrinet - maybe with Olav still in it - disappeared. Buried under the cathedral? Sent to Denmark? Nobody knows.
MRadserver 2y ago That guy who accidently threw away his bitcoin hard drive and it still hasnt been recovered from landfill. Actually there are probably a bunch of bitcoin hard drive stories like this. Modern day treasure!
tacopony 789 2y ago The I Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, tr. Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg From Wikipedia People are still looking, mostly in Poland
Kuuzie 2y ago Great Golden Bell of Dhammazedi Good chance it's still at the bottom of the river, under feet and feet of silt and mud. Lots of people looked for it, even to this day, but so far have been unsuccessful.
EnsignGorn 2y ago The horde of Aztec gold stolen and lost by Hernan Cortez and the Spanish conquistadors during the night of sorrows. While trying to escape from Tenochitlan in the night with the gold, the conquistadors were set upon by the Aztecs. During the fighting and confusion it's thought the gold fell into lake Texcoco. Hernan Cortez escaped with only a small number of his soldiers and the gold has never been found.
limaechohoteldelta 2y ago Almost all Homo Erectus Pekinensis remains. They were packed up during WWII with the intention of shipping them from China to the US for safekeeping, but the ship supposedly carrying the fossils was attacked and ran aground. Photographs and drawings of the originals still exist but the actual fossils were never found.
The_Sound_of_Slants a 2y ago Not really a treasure But currently the US is still missing 6 nuclear bombs. One might have been found by a Soviet sub, but that is not confirmed.
Eledridan 2y ago The imperial treasures of Japan (Kusangi, the mirror, and the magatama jewel) were supposedly lost beneath the waves during WWII.
Supposedly a ton of gold that Uday Hussain withdrew from the national bank of Iraq right before the US invasion. The US was able to find/seize some of it.
riphitter 2y ago There was a book that hinted at a handful of jeweled figurines hidden all over the planet and I believe only some of them have been declared found.
Yhaqtera . 2y ago The entirety of DB Cooper's loot.
Cleets11 . 2y ago Yamashistas gold. There have been some finds but between alleged booby traps and impossible to decode maps they are lost in jungle of the Philippines.
Keianh 2y ago Does the Honjo Masamune count? That's my answer. Best guess is it's collecting dust among the junk of a dead or dying WWII vet and the family has absolutely no idea what they have and if they're at all aware of grandpa's war trophy they're assuming it must be one of the mass produced swords the Japanese made back then.
freakytapir . 2y ago in Edited 2y ago The last panel of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, the central altarpiece of the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. It was painted in 1492, but has been lost for quite a while. A replica now hangs in its place.
retronax 2y ago A huge snake statue whose reproduction was at an ancient mexico exposition in the 19th century among with several other reproductions. It's depicted here on this drawing of the exposition: https://imgur.com/a/HIXz4gi We know what artifacts the other reproductions are based on, save for the snake one. It could be a fabrication, but it would seem strange for it to be the single one off the whole exhibit to be made up
skaote . 2y ago Lost Dutchman Mine ? I I think it was somewhere in Death Valley maybe ? been a long time since I heard it mentioned.
. 2y ago Edited 2y ago The missing fountain heads from the zodiac clock at the old Summer Palace in China. | believe there are six still missing. The last two that were found were auctioned for 31 and $40 million each.
ThrowawayMod1989 . 2y ago There are some particular artifacts taken from the Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai by pirate Henry Avery that haven't been recovered.
2y ago Yay! A reason for my inner titanic nerd to come out. Here we go!... Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyyat, translated and published in 1860 by Edward FitzGerald. Enclosed in an oak slipcase, the Rubaiyyat's ornate cover of Moroccan leather inlaid with a depiction of three peacocks, their tail feathers spread dramatically, including gold embroidery in the details, as well as a Persian ud, similar to a lute, designed of inlaid wood and ivory. The small and delicate jewels which encrusted the book's binding included more than 1,000 emeralds, rubies, amethysts, and topazes, each set separately in gold.
Lorvetchaiti 2y ago The Just Judges - a panel of a larger work from Jan Van Eyck, one of the worlds most renown painters at the time. It was stolen and they found the thief, but he died before he could share what happened to it. Every few years there is a new theory and hunt for it. It might end up in an Indiana Jones movie one day!

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