The mystery of the lost gold treasures of Aztec Emperor Montezuma II still perplexes historians and treasure hunters five centuries later.

There is something deeply human about the idea of buried gold. It taps into a part of our brain that no amount of rational thinking can fully quiet. The mere possibility that a fortune sits somewhere ...

Finding a cache of gold out in the woods is every hiker's dream — and sometimes, it comes true. In February 2025, two tourists were hiking on a hill in the Czech Republic when they stumbled upon a ...

The last robbery of a horse-drawn stage in the U.S. happened on Dec. 5, 1916, in northeastern Nevada near the Idaho border. Stage driver Fred Searcy was driving a two-horse mail stage alone on a snowy ...

Not everyone can pride themselves in a life as adventurous as that of Indiana Jones, but many can arguably match his level of curiosity when it comes to artifacts and treasures. The Amber Room, a ...

Along with a small team, including members of his family, Fisher—who served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II —devoted 16 years of his life to locating this sunken treasure.

The University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, which later published the tombs with Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, concluded that their elaborate gold ...

Priceless artifacts in Laos reveal holy sites from the early days of the Khmer Empire. The discovery of gold and silver artifacts in Laos, dating to the early days of the Khmer Empire, leads ...

Most mysteries eventually get solved. Not these. Whole fortunes, war loot, centuries-old hoards, sitting exactly where they were hidden, or lost, or sunk, waiting on someone with the luck to actually ...

The discovery of gold and silver artifacts in Laos, dating to the early days of the Khmer Empire, leads scientists to investigate how the priceless objects were made and where they might have ...