This book provides examples of candidate treasure signs, symbols, and marks still visible right now where the pavement and noise of civilization have not yet encroached. More than a mere table of idealized treasure sign sketches, this book is full of actual pictures of a wide variety of real signs, symbols, and marks from lonely corners of the ever-rugged North American Southwest. Many of these examples are in areas of known mineral wealth, along known routes of ancient travel, or in areas with a documented legendary tale. Others are from wondrous, stumbled-upon areas possessed of no current name, record, or legend. These are the most precious. In truth, Gold, Silver, Copper and valuable minerals have been recovered while prospecting the areas where these signs, symbols, and marks were documented, and perhaps an examination of these occurrences can help you in some future quest of a similar nature. What You Will Find in This Book: * Pictures, not just drawings, of REAL treasure signs, symbols, and marks, including several never-before released stone maps * Advice for how to use treasure signs, symbols, and marks for yourself * Examples of certain site set ups, and analysis of several famous "big" treasure legends * Web links to numerous treasure tales and resources, including GPS starting points

Describes and illustrates most of the basic symbols used in hiding treasure.

An indepth look at reading treasure maps symbol by symbol. The book also proposes solutions for several well known Spanish treasure maps and symbols found in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. It goes even further and sixcusses cactus markers for treasure trails in the deserts of the Southwest US and Mexico.

The definitive Encyclopedia of Treasure Symbols has been published. From the halls of the Cacheology Society of America and the Cacheology Society and Institute of the United Kingdom comes the definitive work on decoding ancient symbols to locate Lost Treasures. Originally this volume of protected information was the course materials for becoming a Certified Cacheologist, but now this highly valuable treasure trove of knowledge is being made available to amateur treasure hunters and the treasure hunting and treasure legend loving public at large.

Searching for hidden treasures in the Tubac and Tumacocori mountains, few have ever heard of, we discovered places that have never been visited by others to this day. The four of us finally unearthed a medium-size buried treasure south of Tucson, Arizona, which consisted of 82 pounds of Spanish gold bullion.

Discover the rich layers of meaning encompassed in the symbol of the circumpunct. The author discovered this symbol written on many of the rocks in the landscape while exploring the deserts and mountains of Utah, USA. The circumpunct can be found world-wide, and is one of the oldest symbols known to man. Follow the author as she unveils clues to the secrets behind this fascinating symbol.

The Spanish mined and hid their treasures for more than two hundred years. They were creative geniuses leaving behind great works of art in the form of stone sculptures that not only marked trails but hidden treasures. Turtles Lead To Treasure is centered around a gallery of great photos that includes all of the patron saints and many other monuments and symbols never before published. You journey through monuments and symbols that were most used from site to site into some of the most revealing secrets ever published about Spanish monuments and hidden treasure. Detailed information of the one true basic system gives you a good knowledge of how to recognize and decode the symbolic language.

Secrets of lost mine locations revealed through interviews with descendants of the Peraltas, Gonzales and the Isleta Indians of Arizona's Superstition Mountains. New information on the locations of the Peralta/Gonzales funnel mine, the incomplete tunnel, the Dutchman Mine and three previously unknown gold mines in the greater Phoenix area.

As Hawk lies on the bottom of the pool paralyzed he realizes the gypsy was right again. How long can he hold his breath before someone notices? Will he be able to pull through this to finish the remaining predictions? Greg Hawk's memoir of a life's adventure takes a drastic turn at the end of a divorce as he listens to a gypsy lady in New Zealand predict things on the path ahead. Every obstacle on his path in life has put him on another tangent of learning and struggle, at times driving him to the edge of defeat. During these years, death seemed to be a constant companion as he witnessed it, as well as facing it personally. As a soldier, a husband, a divorcee, a partner of a successful construction business in Denver, owner of Fantasy Dive Charters in Australia, to being a treasure hunter in the mountains and desert of the Southwest, he faced many self-imposed challenges." Random Tangents is a celebration of a life well-lived, of obstacles overcome, of the triumph of spirit. And let's face it, sometimes a little luck."

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.