10 Lost Treasures.....

Actually... These are intriguing and real ones. The Knight's Templar treasure..which would be immense for whatever happened to it. The Spanish Treasure fleet...somewhere just off the Florida coast. Then..the last one, and largest lost treasure in history. Just one little piece of it are among the Crown Jewels of England. Most of that one is still..unknown.

Absolutely not! I see it like this -- they're very tight-lipped about what they have in the vaults at the Vatican. And it's practically a futile attempt for independent folks to get a hold of their pieces to study or verify. You don't do that if you don't have some put-the-fear-of-god-in-ya reason to, I'd presume. They almost certainly have artifacts and items in there they shouldn't have, and would likely get in a shitton of trouble globally over having. Admitting to that would severely erode their power globally if countries had cultural artifacts of theirs being held in a clandestine manner by a powerful religious organization. Backlashes, and likely violence, would ensue.

It honestly wouldn't shock me any if they have some of the Nazi treasures somehow, maybe even pieces of the Amber room, the Czar's eggs, etc. If they do have things like those, and simply won't admit so, it makes you wonder exactly how crooked the methods of obtaining them were.

I've always said..there are two places I would want to spend time in, if I were given the chance to see only 2 places in the world.

#1 CIA Archives with a system admin access level (grin)

#2.The Vatican Archives.

CIA only comes first because I am curious about things I actually lived through. However....The Vatican has the REAL HISTORY and the REAL RECORD from about the 700's onward, if not quite an archive stocked and packed before that, then simply carried over into the new facilities in Rome.

Imagine.....everything the Catholic Church was witness to...and they made themselves the center of life across Europe and beyond to KNOW almost everything happening in their areas of influence. All that...recorded with the cold eye of reporting back to Rome in a routine narrative of whats happening ... for over 1,200 years at least. Oh...There is almost nothing I wouldn't give for unrestricted access into those archives, and it wouldn't matter if I could ever speak a word or not. The intellectual Ecstasy it would be to see that unvarnished record of SO MUCH ...would be worth it.

What did Galileo actually say in his defense? Just what the heck DID trigger some of the prestages of the fall into the 'dark ages'?? Their record picks up roughly as that period ended...so surely it would have whatever could be found from during it, as well.

....the things bunnies dream of...

@wrabbit2000, Yes, the first is a Very Nice access,,, there's Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Much to learn, You'll Shit Yourself!   

But then,,,, who you going to tell and be believed other than me or us and live,,,,,, Think about it,,, you'll be marked and watched and watched and monitored even out of country.
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There's another reason I'm thankful for my wife, she helps to keep me grounded, even in my old age,,, or   . 

Will admit ..... when was younger did make a few attempts to find yamashitas gold ......... not find but was fun looking ........ doubt anyone will ever find it ......