Los tesoros más valiosos del mundo se están descubriendo poco a poco, botín tras botín, desde botines de oro perdido por valor de 15 mil millones de libras hasta gemas reales de valor incalculable.
A lo largo de los años, a medida que la tecnología ha mejorado, se han realizado cada vez más descubrimientos en el fondo del océano, desde monedas de plata de la era vikinga hasta gemas reales perdidas.
SAN JOSÉ
The latest treasure trove to be unearthed was a shipwreck with more than $22 billion worth of gold, discovered at the bottom of the Caribbean.
The huge discovery was made in 2015, though details of the find were kept under wraps until 2018.
According to reports from Nine News, the ship marked the most valuable deep-sea treasure haul to date, and was therefore dubbed the “holy grail” of shipwrecks.
The San José was travelling from Panama to Colombia when it went down on June 8, 1708, during a battle with British ships in the War of the Spanish Succession.
As the British didn’t manage to take the treasure before it sank, it was lost into the void for more than 300 years until it was located by an unmanned underwater vehicle called REMUS 6000.
BLACK SWAN PROJECT
The Black Swan project was a 2007 salvage operation that saw the discovery of more than $500 million, or £3.6 million worth of bullion.
At the time, it was the most valuable treasure trove that had ever been found.
The Spanish Government claimed the treasure came from a Spanish vessel – the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes – which was sunk by British Navy ships in 1804.
However, the identity and location of the ship was oddly never disclosed.
THE STAFFORDSHIRE HOARD
Terry Herbert was using his metal detector on a recently plowed field near Hammerwich, in Staffordshire, back in 2009 when he stumbled across the largest trove of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever found.
According to Mental Floss, the hoard included several religious artefacts and lots of decorative items.
Believed to be worth around $4.1 million, or close to £3 million, the haul is believed to have influenced the way historians think about that period in English history.
THE PANAGYURISHTE TREASURE
The Panagyurishte treasure was unearthed by brothers Pavel, Petko and Michail Keikov, when they were digging for clay at a tile factory in Bulgaria.
Their find dates way back to 1949.
What they initially thought was a strange whistle, they later discovered was a ceremonial drinking horn, made from golf.
The piece, which dated back to the 4th century BCE, was thought to be priceless.
TITANIC
The Titantic was carrying more than 1500 passengers and crew members when it went down in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912, after colliding with an iceberg.
También contenía un tesoro de objetos costosos, incluidos oro, diamantes, plata y más, aunque no se conoce el valor exacto del botín.
La mayoría de estos no se descubrieron hasta 1985.
TESORO DE LINCOLNSHIRE
En otro hallazgo cercano, dos entusiastas de la detección de metales descubrieron en 2017 un tesoro de monedas romanas de principios del siglo IV en Lincolnshire.
“Las monedas fueron encontradas en una vasija de cerámica, que estaba enterrada en el centro de un gran pozo ovalado, revestido de piedra caliza extraída de una cantera”, dijo.
“Lo que encontramos durante la excavación me sugiere que el tesoro no fue depositado en el suelo en secreto, sino que tal vez fue una ofrenda ceremonial o votiva”, dijo.
