What are the hoards talking about?

What are the hoards talking about?.. Over the long millennia, which counts our civilization, people have hidden from prying eyes a truly innumerable set treasures and treasures - precious metals, precious stones and other material values. Wherever he hid his man or his wealth: on uninhabited islands and in dense forests, high in the mountains and deep under the earth, in luxurious palaces and ramshackle huts, in specially arranged hiding places and casually placed chairs.

What are the hoards talking about?..

And say the treasure of many things. About the era in which the treasures were buried, about people whose names they are associated with, especially if they are associated with the names of famous historical figures - such as, for example, the king of the ancient Lydia Croesus or the legendary ruler of the Aztecs Montezuma, the leader of the peasant uprising in Russia Stepan Razin or the leader of the African fighters for independence Lobengula, khan Mamai or the Emperor Napoleon, the famous pirate Henry Morgan or the Hitlerite General Erwin Rommel. Scattered throughout the world of light, these treasures, hidden to the best of times - have been around for centuries, others have recently been attracting the treasure hunters of all kinds, like a magnet.

They say treasure not only, and sometimes not so much with gold, silver or emeralds, which are part of their composition, although the value of such jewelry is often estimated to be fabulous amounts. Some of the treasures have, first of all, a huge historical informativeness and value, which can not be compared with any money equivalent. The largest museums of the world are proud of their unique jewelry masterpieces, which speak of the incredible art of ancient masters, the high level of culture of large and small nations. But before getting to the museums, many exhibits spent many years in "imprisonment" in the form of hidden treasures.

They say the treasures of another undoubted advantage: as a rule, they are of considerable interest for science. Mute witnesses of distant eras - coins, ornaments, figurines and such creatures of human hands can tell a lot to scientists, shed light on the darkened pages of the past, and answer the various questions that concern historians. So, for example, coin treasures found in different parts of the world have become an important instrument of cognition: they allow us to trace trade and economic and state ties, to reveal the role and influence of various countries, dynasties, formations in various regions of the ancient world, draw missing fragments or complete touches on the already well-known historical paintings of the past. In a number of cases, on the contrary, the treasures speak an unknown language and ask scientists new questions, sometimes putting them into a dead end.

The current archaeologists and treasure hunters do not look like their ancestors, who had only a compass and a fragment of a map or a wiped out scheme left by the former owner of the treasure. Today, modern science and technology came to their aid. Sensitive magnetic, gravimetric and other physical instruments allow you to probe the ground and stone structures. With the help of sensitive methods of analysis, it is possible to find insignificant admixtures of noble metals in the waters of rivers and lakes, which are "suspected" of concealing jewelry. Not left aside even television: it gives you a glimpse in hard-to-reach or completely inaccessible caves and grottos with traces of ancient treasure. When the treasure is found, physicists and chemists, historians and linguists, art historians and geologists are widely involved in order to get him to talk, in other words, specialists of many branches of knowledge. And the hoards say!

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