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Know about the world's 3 greatest gold treasure hunts

New Delhi: Treasure! The vaults of museums around the world are filled with precious antiquities, but who knows how many historical relics are still out there waiting to be discovered? Indian archeologists are digging up a

India TV News Desk Updated on: September 29, 2014 14:57 IST

2. Nimrod's treasure in Iraq (1988)



The Nimrod treasure was discovered in 1988-1989 by Iraqi archaeologists in the tombs of Assyrian queens and princes from the 8th and 9th centuries BC.

The treasure of Nimrud survived 2,800 years buried near a dusty town in northern Iraq. It then spent 12 years tucked away in a vault. 



Whether it had survived Saddam Hussein's son, a U.S. missile strike, looters, a flood and a grenade attack. But it has been found intact in the dark, damp basement of a bombed out central bank building in 1988.

Dozens of smaller boxes were recovered, which had the entire collection -- 613 pieces of gold jewelry, Precious stones and ornaments from the height of the Assyrian civilization in 800 B.C. Together, the pieces weigh well over 100 pounds.

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