Blak bart
Gold Member
Good stuff kanaki....good stuff !! Thanks !!
Hunting Abandoned Turkish Gold 1932.
- Thread starter jeff of pa
- Start date
KANACKI
Bronze Member
- Mar 1, 2015
- 1,445
- 5,933
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
But it was not the only ottoman buried treasure from WW1 Palestine.
On October 31, 1917 one of the most important battles took place in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, under General Edmund Allenby, commander in chief of the British Forces in this World War I theater of operations. The battle of Beersheba will be remembered as one of the most decisive in the comprehensive British offensive against the Turkish line of defense between Gaza and Beersheba, and in the conquest of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine. The battle reached its climax when the Australian and New Zealand Desert Mounted Corps entered Beersheba from the east, taking the city and the remains of the Turkish fortifications. This brought an end to 400 years of Ottoman rule.
In fact capture of Beersheba by the Australian light horse was last successful horse mounted calvery charge in history.
Ninety years later, on October 10, 2007, during a survey prior to the laying of a natural gas pipeline in the Beersheba region, some three kilometers west of Maras Hablim (Givat Hablanim), the remains of the fortifications of a military base dating from World War I were uncovered. According to the chronicles and maps of the period, the base belonged to the 48th Brigade of the Turkish army's 16th Division. A clay urn was found among the still visible remains of the camp and its fortifications, containing a treasure trove of 92 gold and silver European and Ottoman coins from the end of the 19th century.
The trove is displayed by courtesy of Eyal Zevuloni and Idan Shapira, who uncovered it.
Kanacki
On October 31, 1917 one of the most important battles took place in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, under General Edmund Allenby, commander in chief of the British Forces in this World War I theater of operations. The battle of Beersheba will be remembered as one of the most decisive in the comprehensive British offensive against the Turkish line of defense between Gaza and Beersheba, and in the conquest of Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine. The battle reached its climax when the Australian and New Zealand Desert Mounted Corps entered Beersheba from the east, taking the city and the remains of the Turkish fortifications. This brought an end to 400 years of Ottoman rule.
In fact capture of Beersheba by the Australian light horse was last successful horse mounted calvery charge in history.
Ninety years later, on October 10, 2007, during a survey prior to the laying of a natural gas pipeline in the Beersheba region, some three kilometers west of Maras Hablim (Givat Hablanim), the remains of the fortifications of a military base dating from World War I were uncovered. According to the chronicles and maps of the period, the base belonged to the 48th Brigade of the Turkish army's 16th Division. A clay urn was found among the still visible remains of the camp and its fortifications, containing a treasure trove of 92 gold and silver European and Ottoman coins from the end of the 19th century.
The trove is displayed by courtesy of Eyal Zevuloni and Idan Shapira, who uncovered it.
Kanacki
BillA
Bronze Member
Hi Kanacki,
People have been digging stuff up since it was initially buried; it's called recycling.
Those who buried their stuff are dead, no complaints accepted. (If I cannot make rules for the future, why some corpse?)
That such should be conserved we might agree, and just how many bronze statues have been recast into cannons ? -> not done by looters
gimmie a break, I wanna dig
People have been digging stuff up since it was initially buried; it's called recycling.
Those who buried their stuff are dead, no complaints accepted. (If I cannot make rules for the future, why some corpse?)
That such should be conserved we might agree, and just how many bronze statues have been recast into cannons ? -> not done by looters
gimmie a break, I wanna dig
KANACKI
Bronze Member
- Mar 1, 2015
- 1,445
- 5,933
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Sadly there is complex environment there today. Anti treasure hunting and poor treasure trove laws have forced such activities underground. Plus being on the west bank and local towns and villages have supplied over 28 suicide bombers since 2003 the second intifada. So its a complex and potentially dangerous location at present.
The river Jordan is a problem also the first 2.5 miles from the sea of Galilee and Christian pilgrims still baptism themselves in river is fairly clean. But lower down the river its a much different story.
The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of 2010, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year flow into the Dead Sea.
Most polluted is the 100-kilometre downstream stretch—a meandering stream from above the confluence with the Yarmouk to the Dead Sea. Environmentalists say the practice of letting sewage and brackish water flow into the river has almost destroyed its ecosystem.
Rescuing the Jordan River could take decades, according to environmentalists. The Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Jordan.
Searching the river so toxic could hazard to ones health? If not that the location has the nicknamed sniper alley. The local Kibbutz copped bullets from both sides of the border. So much it was abandoned.
Jenin is Palestinian settlement and Bisan is principally resettled Bedouin who are more supported of Israel. Travel between settlement are done by negotiation.
The bridge was actually destroyed during the Arab Israeli war. Its actually 3 bridges at the crossing point one was road bridge destroyed and railway bridge. The is remains of Roman bridge nearby. The railway bridge has tunnel dug underneath the foundations by treasure hunters. Why they would come to that conclusion is beyond me. However if there is any coins still there it would be deep into the bed of the river. Perhaps the smell of raw sewage puts off would be treasure hunters from searching the river?
Today the flow of the river Jordan is barely flowing. The river is just about dead. But perhaps deep in mud a fortune still waits for those who cannot smell?
Kanacki
The river Jordan is a problem also the first 2.5 miles from the sea of Galilee and Christian pilgrims still baptism themselves in river is fairly clean. But lower down the river its a much different story.
The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of 2010, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year flow into the Dead Sea.
Most polluted is the 100-kilometre downstream stretch—a meandering stream from above the confluence with the Yarmouk to the Dead Sea. Environmentalists say the practice of letting sewage and brackish water flow into the river has almost destroyed its ecosystem.
Rescuing the Jordan River could take decades, according to environmentalists. The Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Jordan.
Searching the river so toxic could hazard to ones health? If not that the location has the nicknamed sniper alley. The local Kibbutz copped bullets from both sides of the border. So much it was abandoned.
Jenin is Palestinian settlement and Bisan is principally resettled Bedouin who are more supported of Israel. Travel between settlement are done by negotiation.
The bridge was actually destroyed during the Arab Israeli war. Its actually 3 bridges at the crossing point one was road bridge destroyed and railway bridge. The is remains of Roman bridge nearby. The railway bridge has tunnel dug underneath the foundations by treasure hunters. Why they would come to that conclusion is beyond me. However if there is any coins still there it would be deep into the bed of the river. Perhaps the smell of raw sewage puts off would be treasure hunters from searching the river?
Today the flow of the river Jordan is barely flowing. The river is just about dead. But perhaps deep in mud a fortune still waits for those who cannot smell?
Kanacki
Last edited:
Top Member Reactions
-
3347 -
1977 -
1931 -
1167 -
1098 -
890 -
807 -
797 -
794 -
789 -
758 -
532 -
490 -
460 -
444 -
427 -
422 -
420 -
E
411
-
383
