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.

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.

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.

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.

This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God.