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Article: Lost and found ... and found ... and found.(guide to buried treasures, artifacts, antiquities)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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Everyone wants a piece of the action. More than 700 churches lay claim to thorns from Christ's famous crown. Holy grails pop up in attics and pubs, and Atlantis is everywhere (and yet, nowhere). And while arks of the covenant may abound, no one has ever found these buried treasures- or if they have, they aren't talking. Here is our map of lost and found people, places, and things.
Jesse James's gold
Before a botched bank robbery in 1876, James purportedly buried $55,000 in gold bars at a Pipestone, Minn., farm. He died in 1882-or maybe he didn't. Some say he lived into the 1900s, burying gold in New Mexico and Texas (to finance a second Civil War in ...