Submission + - 'Great Mayan Treasure Hunt' Finds Merely Outrage (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: A German expedition team assembled to find a lost $290 million Maya treasure allegedly submerged underneath Guatemala's Lake Izabal has returned home empty-handed, but controversy continues to grow over the treasure adventure and its motives.
Joachim Rittstieg, a retired 74-year-old mathematician claiming to have deciphered the famous Dresden Codex, a 400-year-old Mayan book, says he discovered information on page 52 leading to "a giant treasure of eight tons of pure gold" in Lake Izabal. He left Germany with a group of scientists and journalists in early March on a mission funded and exclusively covered by German newspaper BILD.
However, the hunt for Mayan gold turned up empty. In fact the only artifact found on the trip was a pot located on the northern shore of Lake Izabal.
Joachim Rittstieg, a retired 74-year-old mathematician claiming to have deciphered the famous Dresden Codex, a 400-year-old Mayan book, says he discovered information on page 52 leading to "a giant treasure of eight tons of pure gold" in Lake Izabal. He left Germany with a group of scientists and journalists in early March on a mission funded and exclusively covered by German newspaper BILD.
However, the hunt for Mayan gold turned up empty. In fact the only artifact found on the trip was a pot located on the northern shore of Lake Izabal.