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  Oct 19, 2026 Open

  The Copper Scroll: A Treasure List From Qumran

  One Dead Sea Scroll is not parchment but copper, and lists dozens of hiding places for gold and silver. Found in 1952 and cut open in Manchester in 1955, it is real and ancient. Whether the treasure was ever real, nobody knows.

  • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Jordan
  • treasure
  • archaeology
  • museum
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  Oct 19, 2026 Folklore

  Oak Island and the Money Pit

  Since the 1790s, treasure hunters have dug into a small island in Nova Scotia's Mahone Bay, chasing a shaft said to hold pirate gold, Templar relics or Shakespeare's manuscripts. More than two centuries, six deaths and a TV series later, no treasure has been found.

  • treasure
  • Nova Scotia
  • Canada
  • folklore
  • legend