Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

No Sense in Trying

Unfortunately, the three treasure hunters were forced to give up on their search. They were not trained to deal with booby traps, and their camera could only take safe radar footage of 20 miles worth of the caves. This endeavor was considered to be too expensive, and the fact that the replica room exists dissuaded researchers from trying to dig deeper into those tunnels for the original paneling. Strangely enough, this isn’t the first time that insanely expensive artwork has gone missing, in fact, there are some equally impressive artifacts that have yet to be re-discovered…

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