Posted on 09/25/2005 7:30:39 PM PDT by Candor7
The archipelago is named after Robinson Crusoe, but perhaps it should have been called Treasure Island. A long quest for booty from the Spanish colonial era appears to be culminating in Chile with the announcement by a group of adventurers that they have found an estimated 600 barrels of gold coins and Incan jewels on the remote Pacific island.
"The biggest treasure in history has been located," said Fernando Uribe-Etxeverria, a lawyer for Wagner, the Chilean company leading the search. Mr Uribe-Etxeverria estimated the value of the buried treasure at US$10bn (£5.6bn).
The announcement set off ownership claims. The treasure hunters claimed half the loot was theirs and said they would donate it to non-profit-making organisations. The government said that they had no share to donate. It also prompted speculation about the contents of what is considered to be one of the great lost treasures from the Spanish looting of South America. Chilean newspapers were filled with reports that the stash includes 10 papal rings and original gold statues from the Incan empire.
The hoard is supposedly buried 15 metres (50ft) deep on Robinson Crusoe island, also known as the Juan Fernández island, home to Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the adventurer immortalised by Daniel Defoe as Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk was dumped on the island and lived alone for four years before being rescued. His exploits brought worldwide attention to the islands.
For centuries treasure hunters have scoured the island in search of booty which was reportedly buried there in 1715 by Spanish sailor Juan Esteban Ubilla y Echeverria. Using everything from old Spanish ship manifests to teams of islanders with shovels and picks, foreigners have made so many claims of discovering the lost treasure that islanders are usually sceptical of the proclamations.
This most recent announcement, however, deserves greater credence because of the equipment used by the treasure hunters: a mini robot that can scan 50 metres deep into the earth. The robot, dubbed "Arturito", was invented by Chileans and over the past year has grabbed headlines by breaking some of the country's biggest criminal mysteries.
First, the robot detected the buried arsenal of a rightwing sect known as Colonia Dignidad. The guns and rocket launchers were buried at some 10 metres and while the authorities had searched for years, the robot found the buried weapons almost instantly. Then, in the case of missing businessman Jose Yuraszeck, Arturito was able to analyse the soil and identify the molecular composition of human bones, allowing investigators to dig straight to the body of the murder victim.
Sept 19 is TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY. With the hurricanes in the gulf I forgot all about it this year.
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You start going down that road, and the next thing they'll demand is Peru.
About as much as the NY Times is, so... um... never mind.
"...Get it (Arturito) over to Iraq! Uncover some WMD's and the whole National Media empire of the Democratic Party, and the democratic party itself will go nuclear!..."
Actually, not a bad idea!
"About as much as the NY Times is, so... um... never mind."
I got you. You mean it's MSM. I would tend to believe a story like this if I read it in the NY Times. It seems to me that their lies tend to be political in nature.
Lesson: If you find a treasure, don't tell anybody.............
Not!
Pope's were not widely traveled before the most recent.
Pope's do not surrender their rings. When a Pope dies, the ring is purposefully damaged because it contains the Papal seal, then it is destroyed or buried with them.
This is going to fire up every potential treasure hunter in the world. Expect someone to be digging in a yard near you.
Sorry Leni,
It was an innocuous Incan Booty Photo.
It must have been censored.
You can see it here:
http://k41.pbase.com/u36/chidalgo/upload/39518586.020.jpg
Yeah,
I think the Biological Booty Photo was censored!
I thought it was border line innocuous and I apologize if it offended anyone.
For a view of the Incan Booty Beauty go to Miss Chile Reef Competition, there is no nudity, only provocative posteriors:
http://k41.pbase.com/u36/chidalgo/upload/39518586.020.jpg
I bet one of his descendants started the "Star" pistol company. I think the side of my old model B says something like "Echeverria Y Cia"
Now that's just plain wrong! Bad Bunny!
Damn!
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I haven't heard anyone mention Oak Island in years.
Wow I had to go peek at mine....your on yer game picking that up !
Well done !
600 barrels of loot on the island
600 barrels of loot
take one down, pass it around...
:-)
They won't let me post the Incan Booty photo on here , so I give you these page references for Incan Booty ( Biological) page.
http://www.pbase.com/chidalgo/image/39518586
http://www.pbase.com/chidalgo/miss_reef_2005
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