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Lost Treasures
5 Lost Fabergé eggs made by Fabergé in 1891 for
The Memory of Azov Egg,
Tsar Alexander III of Russia
In 1917, the House of Fabergé
jewellers were preparing to
deliver two of their sumptuous
golden and jewelled eggs to
the Russian imperial family
for Easter. Unfortunately for
Fabergé, and even more so
for the ruling Romanovs, the
Russian Revolution swept
away their patrons. The royal
collection of eggs was scattered
around the world as they were
sold by the new cash-strapped
Bolshevik government. The Third Imperial Easter Egg
Of the 50 Fabergé eggs there was seized after the Revolution
are several whose locations are
unknown — but, unlike the other
treasures on this list, there is a
chance you might just stumble LAst Known
upon one. In 2004, the Third LocAtion
Imperial Egg was sold in the
American Midwest for $14,000, All over
its scrap value, by a trader who the world
did not know what he had. The
egg languished in the owner’s
kitchen until they decided to
Google the name ‘Vacheron “the royal collection of eggs was
Constantin’ inscribed on the egg.
In 2014, the anonymous trader scattered around the world
sold it for an undisclosed figure, The Moscow Kremlin Egg
likely to be in the millions. has never left Russia as they were sold ”
6 treasure of the Dead sea scrolls Any archaeologist would give
their right hand, and their trowel,
to discover a historical treasure
The Qumran Caves are trove like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
made up of both artificial Among the important Biblical
and natural caves that
housed the Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts written on papyrus
and parchment, an intriguing
copper scroll was found that
hints at a more worldly treasure
lurking somewhere in the desert.
The Copper Scroll is engraved
with 64 locations where gold
and silver have been deposited
and details the amount of
treasure hidden in each. There is
scholarly debate as to who made
the scroll, who hid the bullion,
when they did it and why. Such
LAst Known questions often take a secondary
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when just one of the caches
Qumran Caves, is described by the scroll as
The Copper Scroll was West Bank holding 41 talents (about 1,350
discovered in 1952 kilograms) of silver.
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