Five Incredible Treasures That Were Found Recently 

In high school I had a friend whose dad buried dozens of coffee cans filled with cash on their land. They owned a ranch. I helped him dig up a few. I won’t comment on what we did with the cash. So, yeah. The explanation of the buried Roman coins might be really, really stupid instead of mysterious and cool.

The purple dye was one of the things that made the Phoenician city of Tyre wealthy. A contemporary account comments that the price of that wealth was having to breathe the air. All those dead snails in the hot sun. . .

The ancient roman silver in my opinion is someones rainy day stash but they either died or were taken before they could get it back

I live on the Treasure Coast of Florida and one of my friends is a professional treasure diver. Every time a tropical storm or hurricane comes through, so many new discovers are uncovered. It’s pretty damn cool.

Just imagine in 1000 years all of the lost socks they'll find.

As you describe the making of the purple die, all I could think was how somebody figured all that out!

You forgot the biggest treasure found of all. Simon Whistler 😊

0:27 ancient Roman silver 2:34 biblical purple dye 5:18 Captain Every's treasure 7:18 ancient Roman gold 9:32:San José galleon

I prefer to call him Henry 'Long Ben" Avery, the most successful pirate ever. Not only did he raid The Moghul Emperor's treasure fleet on the way to Mecca, he also raided on the way back. He disappeared, and was one of the few pirates to get away with their ill gotten gains. Along with Henry Morgan, he ended up Governor of Jamaica and on bottles of rum!

Amazing, how'd they figure out that process to get to a purple dye🤔🤯

I live near The Wash in East Anglia. The original crown jewels were lost there and THAT would be a find.

I'd love to see something on the faberge eggs! 🤩

About the purple dye: not only were there just 3 species of snail able to produce the dye, all of them were (are) sea snails, afaik.

I found a working atari 2600 in my attic of my new house. That is my ancient treasure I recently found. 😂

4:20 Not to mention the process is incredibly stinky! Apparently, the dye comes at more of a cost than you’d think. Lol 🐌🤢🐌

Yeah...if I’m metal detecting and find a hoard of silver, gold, or other precious valuables; you can bet I’m not letting anyone know. The shit part for random people who find buried treasure is that once they let people know, the treasure is stolen from them and not single payment is made to the person who found it. No special royalties fund, nothing.

Thats crazy how much the San Jose treasure is worth, crazy how much gold and other treasures were being transported back then.

Funny story was playing a DnD campaign and I would change my gold in for gems or valuable objects. Went out to stash them one night outside the city that we using as a base and the next day the group got transported to another world. Had like 2 silver and a few copper on me.

Simon, everyone loves a good treasure story. Good on ya.

The real treasure was the friends we made along the way.

I reckon that many adults now buried keepsakes when they were children, be it something special, porn mags or time capsules made from a lunch or shoe box. Well, those were Things to my curious self in the 1970's, and to be honest, I would often forget where I buried such treasures due to distraction, and this was a few decades before the rabbit hole known as Wikipedia. I mean, seriously...go there to check on a minor detail about a particular cheese, and four hours later I'm mildly conversant on Type V molten salt reactors.

Ancient king wanting purple clothes; "I DECLARE A SNAIL GENOCIDE" 🐌 Same king later, writhing around in a snail snot jacket; "I AM A *GOD*"

My favorite treasure was the one found by that Australian guy... and promptly taken from him by the Australian Government. You just can't quite leave behind that criminal past, can ya Australia? -_-

You are the GOAT presenter, Simon. I'm subscribed to all your channels. One Simon = one like from me! Keep up the great work.

With the pirate treasure, I gotta take a closer look at that, since I lived in Middletown RI, for about a year, years before this finding happened. That said, I doubt it was found on a farm, unless it is a fish farm, or a spot in someone's backyard where they grow some crops for personal consumption. Middletown is one of three towns on a rather small island, inside of the bay that nearly divides the state in half.

Me going to the proper authorities after finding 10 gold coins: “Hey, you might want to check out the location where I found these 8 gold coins!”

The real reason the San Jose is worth so much is that they will be able to recover the time machine that was used to transport a ship built in 1698 back to 1588 so it could take part in the Spanish Armada!!

You forgot to mention the shitloads of platinum that the Spanish conquistadors threw overboard while sailing back home, because they thought it was a useless, lesser form of silver (hence the name _platina,_ Spanish for "little silver").

The purple cloth of a king found in a slag heap? The ancient Egyptians used purple dyes from molluscs. I'm not sure this find actually confirms king David's existence, although he probably did exist. In ancient Egypt a time came when non royals were allowed to wear purple, perhaps others were allowed in Israel or the wearer being a foreign visitor? A lot of conclusions based on little evidence with this find i believe.

my heart goes to those snails, you the mvp

Your winter chin plumage is exceptionally remarkable, Simon. From a faithful facial topiarist, I love it. Good content too, with a humourous twist. Happy Winter stuff, Sir!

I can't believe you couldn't find a picture of the shells that produced dye. Not land snails like you showed but Murex sea shells, or rock snails.

What about the guy that hid a bunch of stuff and then put the location in a riddle in a book he wrote and it was found in '20?

Ugh, Chapter 2 is exactly why real Scholors don't take Religious Scholars seriously. This is such idiotic jumping to conclusions to try to tie it to something you want to be true, rather than the actual scientific method of coming to natural conclusions based on evidence.

Okay how the hell did they find out how to make purple dye using snails? That's some crazy stuff

I think that in Finland you get 20 € or something for a massive find. If you find gold here, they'll take it without negotiation. Never ever report any find to anyone. If you find a WW2 bomb or something, just leave it there in hopes that some government official s stumbles upon it

0:30 - Chapter 1 - Ancient roman silver 2:35 - Chapter 2 - Biblical purple dye 5:20 - Chapter 3 - Captain every's treasure 7:20 - Chapter 4 - Ancient roman gold 9:35 - Chapter 5 - San jose galleon

For any would- be treasure hunters, England's original crown jewels are lying somewhere off the coast of East Anglia.

That purple dye process! I mean, what had to happen for humans to come up with that? Did someone find a half dried dead snail and see a drop off purple liquid? Lordy.

The purple tho..... If you wanna see how it can be made, here is a great documentary on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DsbD4SVcjsI.html

How the heck did somebody figure out how exactly to make the purple dye and that it took that many snails to make that tiny amount.

Who really had the job of removing the mucus gland of probably 1000s of animals and dry it in the sun to find a purple die and God knows what else they found in the search, knowing nature I bet there were a few hallucinogens 🙃🤣

Merry christmas to all who celebrate it, and in all cases, a happy new year. May this one be better than the last.

Thank you for talking me to sleep Simon. (I’m trying to sleep through the Covid. 😷🤒😴💤)

You are.. one of the best and most interesting channels I've subscribed to on RU-vid.

Oh good ,someone found my coins! I have tried to took for them a few times but the area became so politically unstable, I had to give up. It's not easy getting older...

I thought the purple fibers were muppet pubes. Learn something new every day.

Fun fact: Born in the purple means born into a reigning family or privileged class

Nit: Colonial country rarely literally steal things. It is usually a combination of robbery, plunder, scam, unequal trade and spoil of war. And depending on the exact nature, that might affect how they should be treated. For starters, let's consider scam and unequal trade. The difference here, IMO, is whether or not the terms of an exchange is carried out. If it isn't, it's a scam. If it is, then it's unequal trade. Here I mean stuff like shiny glass for gold. IMO, scam should be treated the same as "stolen" and profit reverted. But unequal trade, by our standard, is still fair trade in the eye of the supposed victim. As such, I do believe "unequal trade" should be upheld, as they are only unequal in our eyes. Robbery and plunder should also be reverted like "stolen." This then leads to the question of, what is the difference between plunder versus spoil of war? For the most part, I'd say by how the battle, if any, started and how it progressed. For the most extreme examples, attack on a pure civilian settlement for no cause is simple plunder. On the other end, if the natives attacked first and the colonials won, counter attacked and won again, that is most likely spoil of war. The stuff in the middle would be more murky. Things would be simpler if there were formal declaration of war but as the colonials rarely thought the natives as actual nations, that's rarely if ever done. So it will probably go roughly by the degree of military involvement. And with that, we come to the most difficult part of this, what do we do with spoil of war. A lot of people advocate for those too to be reverted as that would be the "right" thing to do, and intuitively, this is how I *feel* as well. But this does not pass intellectual validation in terms of standardization of practice. There are a lot of things that were the spoil of war, including many nations and domain thereof. We aren't seeking for all of those to be returned, so why these specifically? It feels like the decision is more based on whether it is easy and feels right than whether it is right. And... I can't agree with such hypocritical practices. Besides that, the modern view on spoil of war is very... modern. For the longest time, it is was accepted as a normal course of action. In fact, in many ways it is still practiced as such. It's just that today, instead of direct plunder of valuables, it is often more in the form of political influence. Now, in the event of high profile artifact where we know which form of "transaction" took place, we can act accordingly. But barring that, given all of the above, I would only advocate for return of about 70% of the item, favoring those with higher culture value over monetary value. So statues, tablets and other artifacts etc over simple gold.

I spent a semester abroad studying at the University of Alicante. Very interesting treasure finds.

while the treasures are great, I'd like to point out how awesome the 2 men on vacation conducted themselves..f n modest..real humanists

The real treasure was the friendship found along the way

"the diaper juice was a brilliant shade of royal purple."

The most amazing thing I learnt in this video is by far the process used to make the purple dye. Who found out the process by randomly leaving out snail glands in the sun.

Christmas has gone & passed, yet Whistler keeps giving us gifts..

I only wish more people had protected and buried the most important messages of their collective societal knowledge. Not worthless coins and baubles of temporal, terrestrial vanity. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Looked up history around Tel Dan stele. Turns out - that the jew king (Jehoram ninth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel) was killed and he is from house of david. So the myth of davind and solomon still up for debate.

How you figure out the purple snail trick???

You want a fast excavation....mention gold....

why are these videos often so low in volume? turned to 100% and I still have to have my ear glued to speaker to hear anything

Someday, hopefully in 500 to 1,000 years, someone may find the treasure of The Ford Front Door. My uncle bought a Ford car in the 1930s. As he got change, he dropped it in the driver's door through the window slot. After he was drafted in 1942, grandma sold the car without his knowledge. Somewhere, there may be the remains of a Ford Front Door filled with tens of dollars of change. Well, maybe but not likely.

Always a great video to put on with dinner, I look forward to the new uploads for this channel a lot. Thanks for your content!

Simon, you are a national treasure 👌😆💯

how can you talk about ancient treasures and not talk about the gold found in the 5 out of 6 secret vaults of the padmanabhaswamy temple in india? almost 1tr usd worth of gold was uncovered

Ah, Simon the Cynic. However I do see your point: seeing some of the alternative sites on the Tube lately, I’ve deleted them from my favored interests. Balance in all things…Thanks Simon. 😊

Josh Gates is *super* jealous that Captain Every's treasure has been found. Same for the San Jose.

Clearly the coins are all fake. If the dates were BC. ;) I know, I am just being deliberately obtuse. I guess that they are dated using different calendars or just the depictions of the leaders at the time. (But that’s not what Simon said...)

But...but...my parents said I'm the most incredible treasure found :'''''( jk, I'm garbage and my family thinks I'm a failure D:

How on earth did they discover a snail gland could produce a dye? Who discovered that?

I remember finding a really old coin that wasn’t normal looking and because I was a child I lost it I remember a big head of a man and it was bent 😢

Your like I couldn't imagine why he buried it ,,, well obviously it was so that only he knew where it was ... Just don't apply that logic to dead bodies of people .

I'm just ready for robot you or your descendant too report on the bag of Cheetos in the future

Coins cannot have a date 'B.C.' on them as you said. It's simply not possible.

Yup I wouldn’t tell anyone if I found a treasure. Melt it down and sell it as gold and silver . Why would I care about the origins of it anyone involved is long dead and nobody today has a rightful claim to it. Finders keepers

One ship. 17 Billon. And ANYONE tries to tell you there aren't enough resources: they're the fucking enemy.

The real treasure is the friends we made along the way

1:40 this is OUTSTANDINGLY good condition for coins like these, much less for the state of relics of this age PERIOD. I had never seen these pictures; I heard about the find (majored in Humanities with a focus in ancient Roman literature) but never saw these pictures. I have a different career path now, but I still love all things Roman & Greco-Roman. These coins.. it looks like they were plucked out of time. This condition is similar to what an average person would have used at the time. Outstanding.

Treasure hunters belong in jail, they destroy important historical information.

>Why was the jug burried. This was like around the late bronze age collapse. Shit was utter chaos during that time constant war/attacks. Throwing coins in a jug and digging a shallow hideyhole hastily makes perfect sense.

Weird production error: Kept Jim Bailey's name on the screen instead of the Captain's name.

Great content! I was your 600,000th sub.... Do I win a prize? lol

I’ve studied the Phoenicians and am familiar with Tyrian purple dye. To find a new oldest example of it by far is amazing

When you find something buried in the ground neatly it's a pretty good guess it was a bank of sorts, where someone hid something valuable because others wanted to take it.

I found twenty bucks in the street once.

Everyone is forgetting that the real treasure is the friends found on the way.

I found the treasure of the golden Jesus. 400lb solid gold statue of Jesus on a cross. Also bunch of other gold and two dead Spaniards.

Beautiful use of "numismatic". Chef's kiss Simon.

Still like your videos but when did you stop opening with "VSauce, Michael here!"

Lesson of the day. If ya find treasure.........tell no one!! 😎

Speaking of side projects, how is this guy on like 8 different RU-vid channels

Suggestion for a video. There's a guy in Canada who has been excavating his basement with miniature remote control earth moving equipment for the last 17 years or so, he has his own RU-vid channel. It's worth a look, I stumbled across it when I was researching excavators. The guy has major dedication. His channel is called LilGiantsConstrCo.

Got to love the hubris os the spaniards to claim a ship wreck full of stolen treasures from their colonial era belongs tp them......

Treasure Hunters just found a shipwreck in Lake Michigan near Manistee (?) that they believe is full of gold coins, and even more interesting, many barrels of 150yo whiskey.

Hey fact boy, you know what could be a video farm? A side project about the L3HARRIS GPNVG goggles. Or for today I found out, a video about why is night vision green? But then to dive into white phosphorus and the ultra modern "silver lining" infrared tech

I watched this video in 2035, and none of these discoveries are "recently". I want a refund.

The most incredible treasure found recently is Bitcoin

7:40 - I've brought garbage bags with me to the Caribbean for the purpose of clearing beach litter.

Lost of people used to bury their valuables for safety...it would almost be a safe bet to say that's why it was buried.

Buried treasure = No banks

Why would a purple dyed piece of cloth be proof of David or Solomon existing? Surely nobody disputes the fact that kings existed 3k years ago? There's nothing to directly connect the cloth to any particular king or ruler.