![]() The pirate best known for legends of buried treasure is Captain Kidd. ![]() He came back to retrieve it six hours later. But Francis Drake did bury a bunch of Spanish gold and silver after raiding a train in what is now Panama, so that he could go and find his ships. There are very few examples of real-world pirates burying real treasure. Probably because the directions were kinda rubbish. Here’s an example: “In the ruin which is in the valley of Acor, under the steps leading to the East, forty long cubits: a chest of silver and its vessels with a weight of seventeen talents.” To date, no-one has found a single one of the items mentioned on the scroll. ![]() It has a list of 63 locations where gold and silver was stored, with directions. ![]() One of the earliest known examples of a document that tells the reader where to find buried treasure is the “copper scroll” – which was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1952 and is believed to date back to somewhere between 50 and 100 AD. In the real world, treasure maps are more common in fiction than in reality – but they do exist!
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