The new volume of the series "Encyclopedia of secrets and sensations" is devoted to treasures, treasures and treasure hunters, as well as incredible stories that always accompanied them. The book contains the most interesting information from ancient times to the present day about the treasures and people who tried to find them. This has always been the case: buried treasures, hidden treasures ... For many millennia, which our civilization, people have sheltered from prying eyes a lot of treasures - precious metals, precious stones and other "material values". Wherever a man hid his (or his) wealth: on uninhabited islands and in dense forests, high in the mountains and deep underground, in luxurious palaces and dilapidated huts, in specially arranged hiding places and accidentally found himself at hand chairs.