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A treasure hunter is a person who, as either a vocation or avocation, searches for sunken, buried, lost, or hidden treasure and other artifacts. ==Historical== *Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823, Italian). sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities.He removed with great skill the colossal bust of Ramesses II, commonly called "the Young Memnon" later shipped to England. He expanded his investigations to the great temple of Edfu, visited Elephantine and Philae, cleared the great temple at Abu Simbel of sand (1817), made excavations at Karnak, and opened up the sepulchre of Seti I (still sometimes known as "Belzoni's Tomb"). He was the first to penetrate into the second pyramid of Giza, and the first European in modern times to visit the oasis of Bahariya. He also identified the ruins of Berenice on the Red Sea. *Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890, German). He argued for the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer and was an important excavator of Troy and of the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. He is considered by many to have been the "father of historical archaeology." * Mel Fisher (1922-1998, American). Best known for finding the wreck of the Spanish galleon ''Nuestra Señora de Atocha'' in 1985. The estimated $450 million cache recovered, known as the "''Atocha'' Motherlode," included 40 tons of gold and silver and some 100,000 Spanish silver coins (pieces of eight), gold coins, Colombian emeralds, golden and silver artifacts, and 1000 silver bars. *Robert F. Marx (b. 1923, American). A pioneering scuba diver best known for his work with shipwrecks and sunken treasure. Considered controversial for his frequent and successful forays into treasure hunting. E. Lee Spence described him as "the true father of underwater archaeology."〔Spence, E. Lee. ''Spence's Guide to South Carolina''. Nelson Southern Printing: Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, 1976.〕 *Philip Masters (1937 - 2007, American). Led the hunt for Blackbeard the pirates flagship, the ''Queen Anne's Revenge''. His company, Intersal, Inc., under permit with the State of North Carolina, found the wreck in November of 1996 while searching for the ''El Salvador''. He was also part of the crew that salvaged the ''HMS Feversham'', a British warship that sank off Nova Scotia in 1711. Following his death Intersal continued the search for the ''El Salvador'' near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. * Brent Brisben (American). Best known for ownership and salvage of the 1715 Treasure Fleet. Brisben made headlines worldwide in 2015 when he and his crew recovered 4.5 Million Dollars worth of gold coins from the 1715 Fleet on the actual 300th anniversary of the sinking of the fleet. *E. Lee Spence (b. 1947, American). A pioneer in underwater archaeology, he is noted for his expertise on shipwrecks and sunken treasure. Born in Germany to an American spy master, Spence writes and edits reference books as well as magazines (''Diving World'', ''Atlantic Coastal Diver'', ''Treasure'', ''Treasure Diver'', and ''Treasure Quest''), and publishes magazines (''ShipWrecks'', ''Wreck Diver''); and a published photographer. Spence was 12 when he found his first five shipwrecks.〔Warner, Eugene. "Diver Lee Spence" ''Sandlapper''. April 1970, p. 40-43.〕〔Hatch, Katherine. "Treasure Diver." ''Treasure World''. February-March 1972, p. 44-45.〕 Spence has salvaged over $50 million in valuable artifacts〔King, Charles. "About the Author" (p. 517) in E. Lee Spence, ''Treasures of The Confederate Coast: the "Real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations''. Narwhal Press: Charleston/Miami, 1995.〕 and was responsible, through his archival research, for the location of the wrecks of the side-paddle-wheel steamers ''Republic''〔Nesmith, Jeff. "(Ocean Treasure Company Has a Murky History )." Cox News Service: 3 June 2007.〕 and ''Central America''〔"Treasure." ''Life''. March 1987.〕〔"Milliard-Skatten." ''Vi Menn''. November 1989. p. 4-7.〕 from which over a billion dollars in treasure has been recovered.〔"£600M Gold in Them Thar Holds." ''The Sun'', 16 September 1989, p. 11.〕 * Captain Robert MacKinnon (b. 1950-present, Canadian). Known for finding the wreck of the Auguste in 1977. Covered in an issue of ''National Geographic'' 77-78. The estimated value of artifacts said to be worth hundreds of millions. Auguste was a full rigged sailing ship which sank at Aspy Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1761 while carrying exiles from the fall of New France. Auguste was a former French privateer ship which had been captured by the British and converted to a merchant ship.〔 Book-Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast〕 *Martin Bayerle (b. 1951, American. Finder of the legendary shipwreck RMS Republic, an in-=progress recovery for what may be the greatest treasure recovery of all time,''The Tsar's Treasure,'' estimated to be worth in excess of $2 billion in gold coin, gold and silver bars, circulated coin and passenger valuables. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of treasure hunters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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