Treasure is a density of valuables, frequently one which was considered lost or forgotten ready and waiting to be found once again. Some jurisdictions legally define what represents Treasure, eg in the UK Treasure Act of 1996.

Treasure hunting may be the physical search for treasure which has been a prominent human activity for millennia and also the treasure hunter is someone who either as vocation or avocation searches for sunken, buried, lost or hidden treasure and other artifacts. Concealed treasure is an important part of the common impressions surrounding pirates and Aged West outlaws. According to popular belief, thieves and others often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, meaning to return for them lateron, often by the utilizing a treasure map. For any longest time, a treasure map has generally been seen as a document made on parchment, paper or cloth that contains drawings, pictures and directions to a hidden or buried treasure. Nevertheless now, in this new digitalised universe, the view on the treasure maps has drastically changed. Now, some of the best treasure maps available may be able to help direct Treasure hunters by Global Positioning Process (GPS) latitude and longitude navigation. This is the way ahead for treasure Hunting!

Hidden pirate treasure is a long time favourite literary theme, there are very few documented cases of pirates actually burying treasure, and no documented cases of a historic pirate treasure map. One documented case of buried treasure involved Francis Drake who buried Spanish gold and silver after raiding the teach at Nombre de Dios. After Drake left for find his ships, he returned 6 hours later, retrieved the loot and then set sail for England. Drake didn't create a map. Another case in 1720 involved British Captain Stratton of this Prince Eugene who, after presumably trading rum with pirates in the Caribbean, buried his treasure near the mouth of that Chesapeake Bay. One with his crew, Morgan Miles turned him in to the authorities, and it is assumed the loot was recovered. And in this case, Captain Stratton was never considered a pirate, together with made no map. The concept of pirates or looters making a map versus keeping directions in their mind most probably implied the rush or lack thereof in their original plan for retrieval.

Of late, the early stages in the progress of archaeology included a major aspect of the treasure hunt. Heinrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy, and later at Mycenae, both turned up material finds of treasureen artifacts. Lately, numerous full-time Treasure hunters have started out working underwater, where leading edge technology permits access to wrecks containing gold and silver which were at one time near impossible to reach. Starting with the diving suit and moving on through Scuba and later to help ROVs, every new generation of technology has made more shipwrecks reachable. Many of those shipwrecks have resulted in the recovery of many captivating treasure artefacts from Spanish fleets and many others. Treasure hunting is condemned by a growing number of countries and UNESCO issued a chart for the protection of the underwater cultural heritage in 2001.

For many, on the opposite side of the treasure hunting spectrum, Geocaching is a treasure hunting game and outside sporting practice in which the participants, termed geocachers, use a GPS receiver or some kind of portable device and other navigational systems to stash and seek boxes, called" geocaches" or" caches", all over the world.

A normal cache is a small water repellent container containing a log book in which the geocacher enters the time they found it together with signs it with their established code name. Larger containers i.e. plastic storage containers or ammo boxes can also contain items for trading, by and large toys or knick-knacks of tiny plunder. Geocaching is typically described as a"game of high-tech hide and seek", giving many aspects with bench-marking, trig-pointing, orienteering, null searching, letter-boxing, and way-marking.

Geocaches are presently placed in over a hundred nations around the globe and on all 7 continents, including Antarctica. After ten years of undertaking there could be over 1, 532, 000 available geocaches circularized on various websites and there could be well over 5 million geocachers internationally.

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