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Priceless artifacts, forever lost to mankind. Photo

Бесценные артефакты, навсегда потерянные для человечества. ФотоSo important to the culture things that the word “priceless” is almost an underestimation.

In the entire history of mankind there have been many values that later became artifacts.

Over time they were stolen, destroyed or forgotten depending on who came to power. Some of the most valuable artifacts to date, lost forever – later in the review.
Priceless artifacts lost forever

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1. Of the English crown jewels

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Richard the Lionheart and Philip August prinimaut the keys to the Acre.
Jewels of the English crown called crown jewels of the United Kingdom. They carried out of the tower of London only during coronations. Security delivers to the monarch’s crown, scepter and other ornaments.
During the long history of British regalia several times stolen, destroyed, melted down. So, in 1216 king John of England, younger son Alienor of Aquitaine, crossed across the wash in East Anglia. There he was overtaken by a sudden outbreak a burst. Fell into the sea some chests of jewels, among which was the crown jewels. By the way, John of England in a couple of days then contracted dysentery and died suddenly.

2. The scepter and crown of the British Empire.

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And across the wash and for the past nine centuries attracts desperate daredevils, attempting to find sunken treasure.

3. A ship made of mahogany

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Modern man is difficult to imagine the world in the era of Great geographical discoveries of the XV-XVII centuries. In that time, brave sailors set off into the unknown corners of the planet in search of new lands. Open areas were assigned the name of the king and became part of the colonial empires of Spain, Portugal, Holland, England.
But the sailors were not always able to safely complete its voyage. So, while the secret voyage in 1522 disappeared without a trace Portuguese ship made of mahogany. His crew was supposed to explore the coast of Australia.

4. The gun of the sunken Spanish Galleon, the Columbia.

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The wreck found in 1847. The Galleon was under the sand dunes at the harbour in South Australia. But soon the trail was lost. So goes the story from the lips of locals and whalers.

5. Necklace Patiala

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In 1925, Paris was visited by Maharaja Bhupindar Singh of the Indian state of Patiala. His great riches were not heard unless the deaf. Maharaja came to France empty-handed. In addition to a large retinue he brought with him several chests of gems.
Bhupinder Singh went to the jewelry house Cartier. He wanted to get unprecedented beauty of the necklace. The masters took three years to finish the job. The finished product was a cascade of 5 rows of platinum strands with 2930 diamonds. The Central place in the necklace held the yellow diamond “De Beers”. It was the 7th largest in the world and look no less than a Golf ball. In the house of Bvlgari before you send the necklace to India, put him on public display and photographed for memory.

6. Necklace Patiala restored by the house of Cartier.

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The last time the necklace was seen the son of Maharaja in 1948, and then it disappeared. It is known that in the period of Maharaja fell on hard times and they sold the jewels to make ends meet. The Patiala necklace too, removed the stones, and then sold and chain.
Half a century chains were discovered in London. Jewelers from Cartier bought it and almost completely restored the necklace, replacing natural diamonds with synthetic.

7. Parliamentary rod Victoria

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The removal of parliamentary staff – a ritual passed down through the ages.
More than a century ago the government of Victoria (Australia) was used as a ceremonial scepter. This is a subject with a length of five meters, made of silver. It is considered very valuable, because it is a symbol of power and constitutional rights of the inhabitants of the colony.
9 Oct 1891 scepter was stolen. Initially, the police suspected the engineer Thomas Jeffrey, who worked in the building. Witnesses saw him with a parcel, which size coincides with the desired object. But it turned out that he was just carrying his tools. Blame him and could not.

8. The announcement of the parliamentary search of the rod of Victoria.

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A year later in the local newspaper was published humorous stories. One of them derided members of Parliament. The author believed that the stick was forgotten in the popular brothel. But this version was unable to verify, as the rod sank into Oblivion.

9. The patent of the Wright brothers

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The world’s first airplane. Illustration of a missing patent.
All countries carefully save your important and valuable documents. But even in such famous collections as the national archives of the United States, there loss.
In 2003 it became clear that the archive was stolen by the patent documents which described the world’s first aircraft designed by the Wright brothers. Gone more than 200 pages of text, the correspondence of Wilbur and Orville Wright with the patent body, photos of the first flight.

10. Flight of Wright Flyer II, 1904.

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As admitted by the employees of the archive, in the most recent documents seen in 1980. Theft from the National archives became so frequent that even the group was established, whose main task – to calculate exactly how much was stolen.

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