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:
“it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principle activating them to know this would be to know too much. Meanwhile it is possible to know just enough, and this is all we were supposed to know, toward which we have been straining all our lives.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 15:16.