Top 50 Lost Treasures And Artifacts Steeped In Legend

From the legendary sword of Excalibur, to a room full of gold that was estimated to be worth close to $300 million, we look at the top 50 lost treasures and artifacts steeped in legend.

50 — Thomas Beale’s Ciphers

This set of three cipher-texts, commonly known as The Beale ciphers, allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of gold, silver and jewels estimated to be worth over $43 million.

Consisting of three different ciphers, two have remained unsolved over the years, while the third cipher has been solved and reveals the contents of the treasure.

Weighing about three tons, includes approximately 35,052 troy oz gold, 61,200 troy oz silver, worth about $43 million and jewels worth close to $220,000 in today’s money.

The other two ciphers, one of which supposedly reveals the exact location of the buried treasure has not been solved.