A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates and Old West outlaws. According to popular conception, criminals and others often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later, often with the use of treasure maps.
Read more about Buried Treasure: Pirate Treasure, Famous and Notorious Cases
Famous quotes containing the words buried and/or treasure:
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil,
Do seek most precious things to make your gain,
And both the Indias of their treasure spoil,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)