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means Something valued highly, whether wealth, precious objects, or a person or thing held dear.

from From the Greek 'thesauros' — a storehouse or hoard — which traveled into Latin as 'thesaurus,' then softened through Old French 'tresor' before settling into English. So the same root that gives us the word for a book of synonyms once meant a literal treasure-chest of stored-up riches; a thesaurus is, quite honestly, a hoard of words.

buried odds
Most pirates spent loot fast, rarely burying any
sunken haul
Oceans hide an estimated 60 billion dollars in wrecks
finders rules
Many countries claim treasure the moment you dig it
word root
From Greek thesauros, also gave us thesaurus
for instance

oak island money pit — legendary buried treasure in nova scotia searched since 1795, allegedly containing captain kidd's or templar wealth

titanic wreck artifacts — ~5,500 items recovered from the 1912 shipwreck including jewelry, manuscripts, and first-class luggage

tutankhamun's tomb — 3,300-year-old egyptian pharaoh's burial chamber discovered in 1922 with 5,398 artifacts intact

amber room — 18th-century prussian palace chamber of amber panels, stolen in 1941, partially reconstructed in 2003

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