4. The Bactrian Gold
Current Estimated Value: Incalculable
Year Vanished: 0–100 A.D.
Discovered in 1978
A Smithsonian Magazine article claims that the Bactrian Gold “shook the world of archaeology.” According to the Wall Street Journal, gold is almost priceless and unquantifiable due to its enormous value. Tillya Tepe, in northern Afghanistan, is the site where the Bactrian Gold was discovered. Historians from the Soviet Union and Afghanistan discovered the wealth.
The Gold of Bactrian ©H Sinica via Wikipedia
Twenty thousand ornaments made of gold, ivory, silver, and other precious metals made up the trove. They were found in the burial mounds of five ladies and one man, who were probably all important figures in first-century A.D. society. The Scythian gold artifacts, found on the shores of the Bosphorus and Chersonese thousands of miles away, are the closest objects to these.
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