I am sure that the theme of treasure excites minds of all and 100% as certain that every family has its own tradition of once-buried treasures or somewhat obfuscated stash in the past. My parents, too, there is such a legend, the once hidden gold "chervontsi", oh it will be necessary as in the case, then check this legend, you never know. Good luck to you in search of treasure!
According to the encyclopedia "Archaeology and Numismatics Belarus, the last two centuries in Belarus found more than a thousand treasures ...
Many of us have searched in childhood treasure. Personally, I remember how, after reading adventure novels about the treasure hunt, only two days in a row with breaks for lunch wielded a shovel on the mound near the villa. Dug a hole from which with difficulty escaped. Naturally, I found nothing. In general, the young millionaire, I did not. In general, people often dream of a fast and wonderful enrichment.
Someone is waiting for a large inheritance, someone is involved in all lotteries in a row, and some sick lust for treasure. You bet! According to rough estimates, around the world are buried in the ground or a bad lie on the bottom of rivers and seas about 300 thousand tons of only gold and silver - ten times more.
Will find a treasure ... a pig
In principle, everyone can find the treasure, but the lucky few. Most often find treasures by chance. As such, it was during excavation works in the very center of Minsk in 1988: heat pipeline was laid at the intersection of Volodarsky and Republican, and suddenly the excavator bucket, scooped more than ten kilograms of pure silver - coins, medals and other valuables. There are cases when the hoards were in suburban areas during the banal growing beds or build sand castles children. In the villages, even several times treasures dug their noses ordinary pig. And once dozens of ancient coins discovered in the nest of magpies. From some cause.
Quite by chance was found and one of the most reputed treasure - Kozyankovsky. In 1973, a boys from the village of Polotsk Kozyanki walked across the field and noticed a few coins. Began in this place to dig, and get out of the land as much as a half pounds of Arab coins. As it turned out the scientists, this treasure was the treasury of the Polotsk principality, stolen by a gang of robbers and buried a thousand years ago.
These findings are explained by such a wonderful feature of the Belarusian treasures, like their shallow reservoir (20-40 cm). This jewelry, which the owners were going to take a short time. If the treasures were hidden for a long time, they dug deeper. Coins are usually wrapped in cloth, leather or poured into clay egg capsules.
Napoleon and gold of Radzivil
Archaeologists say that the Belarusian land, still at least two thousand treasures. The most legendary of unfound until now (at least in that no one has yet admitted) Belarusian treasure - the 12 Apostles magnate family Radzivil made of gold and silver in human growth and studded with precious stones. They disappeared from the Niasvizh castle in the early 19-th century. Once at the entrance to the time of the Russian Empire of Belarus came to Napoleon, then-owner Dominique Radzivil castle, hoping to revive with the help of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, formed a military corps of several thousand Belarusian gentry and went along with the French at Moscow. However, as we know, Napoleon was defeated, and Shults was occupied by Russian troops. In Russia it was taken out a lot Radzivil treasures. Some of them, for example, settled in the Hermitage. But the legendary 12 apostles was not found. According to one historical versions, Dominic Radzivil ordered to remove them from the city, but that before the arrival of Russian troops did not have time to do so, and therefore was forced to blow up the tunnel, which led to room where Radzivil kept wealth, including these gorgeous statues.
Since then, many have searched for the famous 12 apostles, but to no avail. A couple of years ago in Nesvizh Castle conducted extensive research of his dungeon, but the 12 apostles, there is not found. It is possible that they are not locked up. For another version, the 12 apostles are hidden in an underground tunnel between Nesvizh and Peace length of 35 km, which allegedly could disperse two coaches. However, scientists have questioned the existence of such a move, because on the way to Nesvizh is tectonic fault, which can not be overcome.
Another famous treasure of Belarus - two barrels of gold, allegedly exported by Napoleon from Moscow looted and hidden somewhere on the road to retreat in the Belarusian land. But for two hundred years no one has been able to find them. And so was born the version that this treasure does not exist. Like, Napoleon gave all the gold the soldiers with the proviso that in France they will give him. This version is supported by discovery of students from Byelorussian State University, where they collected the potatoes in the Borisov region. The students stumbled on the remains of a French soldier in a purse which appeared a few Russian coin minting of those times.
Weapon Treasure Hunt
To start the search for gold Napoleon, in the first place you need to know where. To reduce the amount of extra work, they sit for months in libraries. In general, the treasures of the bay, struggling not searched - this is pure amateurism. Examined and special literature on technology treasure. With the hike in the hardware store for a shovel out in search of jewelry except that the lowest caste of "black archeologists" - Vandals dig up graves.
Tool of the modern treasure hunt - a metal detector, high-sensitivity instrument capable of finding treasure, even a very deep underground. Metal detectors were invented in the 20 years of the last century in the U.S. for the detection tools and finished parts, handed down from the factories by the workers. During the Second World War they were used to locate mines by the military. This unit is due to emission of radio waves and the capture of secondary signals detects the presence of metal.
Standing metal detectors in an average of 250 to 3000 dollars. There is also a very expensive computerized equipment worth about 10 thousand dollars. Unlike the cheap metal detectors, they can identify with some degree of probability the size of the hidden object, the type of metal detection to extract it, determine its depth.
But for many treasure turns into a hobby, and it is important to rush the process. While looking for treasures and found them not always the main thing - there's a chance that someday we're lucky.
We are simply marking time on a treasure!
In general, in a Belorussian land is many treasures. Where else was for our ancestors to store valuables? Safe because there was no. Belorussian treasure, both amateur and archaeologists of the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences, in one voice say that Belorussian with clades were lucky: our country is considered one of the richest on them in Europe, because there were trade routes from north to south, and west to east. According to the encyclopedia "Archaeology and numismatics of Belarus" the last two centuries in Belarus, found more than a thousand treasures. Most - in the Mogilev, Vitebsk and Minsk regions.. But how many actually, nobody knows, because many people did not think to admit that they were lucky, because in this case will have to share with the state.
Under the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the treasure belonged to someone who will find it. In the case if it was not found on their land, it was divided equally between the landlord and who has found. In European countries, was and remained the same practice, borrowed, incidentally, from Roman law. Soviet treasure hunters jealous European, because in the USSR all the land and being in her subjects belonged to the state, and the finder of the treasure got only 25 percent of the estimated mass of a precious metal in the treasure.
And that in this respect referred to the Civil Code of Belarus? The treasure comes in the ownership of the person who owns the property where it was hidden, and the person who found the treasure, in equal shares. But in case of detection of buried treasure, containing items relating to the monuments of history or culture, they are to be transferred to public ownership. In this case, the owner of land or other property where the treasure was hidden, and the person who learns of a treasure, are entitled to receive remuneration, together amounting to fifty percent of the value of the treasure. " But most of the ancient treasures will certainly have historical value, is not it? It turns out that the man who found the treasure, with the result, as in the Soviet Union, 25 per cent. Not a lot ...
Naturally, this triggered commercialism, and many treasures from the museums do not fall, and in private collections. For the concealment of treasure, of course, provides for criminal liability, but go and prove that it is a treasure, not jewels, inherited from your grandmother. Also by law to seek the treasure can only with permission of the landowner, where excavations are made. If the treasure will be found without such permission, it fully takes it himself.