Buried treasures

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Buried treasures':

  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Tomb of Tutankhamun / by: Howard Carter / in: 1922/ now: Cairo Museum
  • Archaeological Site of Aigai Marcedonian royal treasures, 1977-1978 (museum in situ)
  • Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns Gold Funerary Masks ("Mask of Agamemnon" etc)- Schliemann 1876. Now in National Archeology Museum in Athens
  • Ayutthaya Ratchaburana Golds in 1956 and 1958 (Chao Sam Phraya Museum)
  • Cocos Island The Treasure of Lima, en route by ship to Mexico in 1820, was stolen by the captain and his crew and was supposedly buried there. Since then, many searches have failed to discover it!; link
  • Incense Route of the Negev Mamshit: The biggest treasure ever found in Israel: 10500 silver coins, 158 pounds of plumbum tonque with foundry signs and a papyrus cluster with Greek ancient texts.
  • Oaxaca and Monte Alban Treasure of Monte Alban (1932) - 500 silver and gold objects (now in State Museum of Oaxaca)
  • Old City of Jerusalem 264 golden coins from Heraclius' time discovered in 2008
  • Palenque Tomb of Pakal the Great / by: Alberto Ruz Lhuillier / in: 1952 / now: National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City
  • Troy Priam's Treasure / by: Schliemann/ in: 1873 / now: Pushkin Museum Moscow