Re: Which is the biggest treasure in the world never found? Pirates,Masons,Spani
Hello friends,
That Oak Island treasure is fairly well documented, and a lot of material is online. There are photos of the engraved stone, the gold links, the bit of parchment etc though the actual items have disappeared considering we are talking about a treasure this should come as no surprise. Here are a few of the many articles and websites on this mysterious site:
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/story.html
http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/
Here is a photo of the bit of parchment that came up on the drill bit:
(from
http://members.tripod.com/~Zomb/OAKISLAN.HTM )
Just do a Google search and you will turn up a couple million hits.
What the heck is buried there, and how much is it worth? There have been many theories including Captain Kidd's treasure (strange since he was one of the least successful pirates of all), Blackbeard's treasure (again, odd since Teach's base of operations was far south in the Carolinas), loot from the French king, loot from the British king, some kind of Knights Templar treasure secreted there by Sir Henry Sinclair, an archive of texts written by Sir Francis Bacon which would prove he was the author instead of Shakespeare, even a holy burial site of Coptic christians fleeing the Muslim conquest of North Africa. It is one of those mysteries that is similar to the pyramids, in that you can expound about any sort of theory and find ways for it to "fit". Using the inscribed stone, several "translations" have been propounded, which led to several different "attacks" on the island by drills, heavy earth-moving equipment, giant pumps etc. However, the various renderings of translations from the engraved stone almost certainly are
wrong, and the stone may be
something quite different from a "treasure" type marker entirely! Here is a rendering of the stone: (there are photos online somewhere, don't have time to hunt them down)
Now, for all those who see Pirates or king's emissaries hand, just compare this type of inscription to ancient Berber and Tifinagh!
(from
http://www.ancientscripts.com/berber.html)
Considering that ancient Berber pretty much fell out of use about 300 AD, what does that tell you? Hmmm.....
The Oak Island mystery has led to some wild ventures and led to the deaths of several people! How much the potential treasure might be worth is open to the sky, but we really don't know what might be there - it might be something quite different from gold coins or silver bars! Unfortunately due to the ham-handed tactics used by earlier treasure hunters, it seems extremely unlikely that we will EVER learn what was deposited there with so much engineering and effort (even to the point of having had to build a sea-wall to keep the waters away while the traps were constructed) that one has to doubt the tales of pirate treasure or some royal emissaries fleeing in haste - this took TIME to construct, and considerable manpower - plus the cocoanut fiber for the trap tunnels which had to have been brought from quite some distance. Oak Island has been the subject of several television programs, it is a fascinating mystery indeed.
Anyway Oak Island is one of the great remaining mysteries in our world, I hope to hear some day that someone has indeed found whatever it is that was buried there, be it pirate treasure, the Holy Grail or texts of Francis Bacon; (though that strange alphabet points to a much older source IMHO). Hey, I like this, turnabout is fair play - now how do YOU like being in the "skeptic's seat" Gollum? Hee hee! You kept me on that seat for weeks, or at least it seemed like that - and I don't like being the "skeptic"!!!
Then there is the Ark of the Covenant, which really disappeared from history. There are theories and some wild claims about this too - even a movie made about the search for it (Indiana Jones) but the hard facts are difficult to find. The Ethiopian claim to possess it is not backed by biblical sources - for their story goes that the Queen of Sheba (they claim her as well, and is possible - Strabo and Diodorus mention that eastern Ethiopia and what is today modern Yemen were ruled by one monarch for some time) had a child by king Solomon, and this son went to visit his father when he reached manhood; Solomon supposedly gave his son the Ark, who then secreted it away to Ethiopia for safekeeping. This is where the Ethiopian story falls apart, since the Ark is still mentioned as being in Jerusalem several centuries later. (This also quashes that claim that the Egyptian king who attacked Judaea after the death of Solomon took it, also since he never captured Jerusalem it is highly unlikely) The Ark disappears when Nebuchanezzar attacked and captured Jerusalem, and we are pretty sure that the Babylonians didn't get it either, since they made a record of ALL the loot they captured and there is no mention of the Ark. The Old Testament does give a clue, that the Ark was "hidden in it's place" where ever THAT might be! I would find it highly unlikely that they would have chosen to bury their most sacred object outside the city walls in Golgotha (again, where garbage was tossed and criminals executed, an old stone quarry actually and difficult to dig in) but who knows? There are theories that the Knights Templar dug it up and secreted it away (again another theory that it was buried in Oak Island!) but no proof.
The Ethiopian Ark is kept in a special small building with an iron fence and a full-time priest guarding it - no one is allowed to enter the enclosure, much less ever look upon the Ark. If they DO have it (Graham Hancock is of the opinion they DO have it, that the Ark was carried there when the Babylonians attacked Judaea) and the stories from the Old Testament are true, it would be a
very dangerous object and you would be risking your life to look on it! There are theories that this Ark was really a giant capacitor, and that Moses used it as a sort of "magic" weapon, and there is some reason to think this might be the case. (After all, Moses had been raised in Egypt and educated with royalty, and would have learned some of the "tricks" used by Egyptian priests - in fact there are Egyptian "arks" similar to the Ark of the Covenant so...?)
Dang it, almost forgot about what is perhaps the OLDEST lost treasure legend - the "Cave of Treasures" described in apocryphal biblical texts! This cave supposedly holds the remains of Adam and Eve as well as severl of the earliest patriarchs, along with their treasures of gold, silver and gems, which cave was sealed in the time of Noah to preserve the remains from the biblical Flood. People were out hunting for this hidden cave in the days of Ur and Abraham, and even before the pyramids were built. How much was hidden there? Who knows?
This has been an interesting thread, thanks friends, and I hope you all have a great day!
your friend,
Roy ~ Oroblanco
PS Saint, I hope you will fill us in with more on that legend?
Yeesh.....
