# Do they ever find "Lost Treasures" on any of the TV series? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255 "2020-09-10T12:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/41 "2020-09-11T23:32:55Z")
Closest I have noticed: > **[Treasure Quest (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Quest_(TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Treasure Quest is a one-hour weekly American reality television series that premiered on January 15, 2009 on the Discovery Channel. The program follows the employees of Odyssey Marine Exploration > as they search the English Channel for various lost ships. The team is led by company CEO Gregory Stemm and Tom Dettweiler (operations director of Robert Ballard's team that discovered the RMS Titanic). In one episode they actually found the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Our Lady of Mercy), a Spanish frigate and treasure ship that sunk in 1804. Unfortunately, for the stars of the show, the Odyssey Marine Exploration group; they lost the ensuing case for the rights to the estimated $500 million booty, all the treasure did go to Spanish government. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/42 "2020-09-12T00:10:53Z")
The lowest points I saw in this kind of documentaries: The tiny egg cup they found on someone’s British attic allegedly being the Holy Grail (I saw it on German TV, but I think it was a BBC production). The alleged Veil of Veronica showing Jesus’ real face that looks like a painting of a pre-schooler. > **[Manoppello Image](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoppello_Image)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Manoppello Image is a depiction of the face of Jesus Christ on a cloth (17.5 cm wide and 24 cm high) that is stored in a church in the village of Manoppello, Italy. The church, known as Santuario del Volto Santo, is part of a monastery belonging to Capuchin friars. There have been claims that the cloth is the Veil of Veronica. > According to local tradition, an anonymous pilgrim arrived in Manopello in 1508 with the cloth wrapped in a package. ... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/43 "2020-09-12T04:15:33Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Catholic doctrine FWIW is that none of those people were actually siblings of Jesus’s. > > True, but that was mainly because they had a vested interest in maintaining the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary, and that she didn’t have sex with Joseph even after Jesus’s birth. The most natural reading is probably that they were actual siblings; AFAIK there is nothing in the original text that indicates they were not. (But this thread is probably not the best place to get into the fine points of Biblical interpretation.) The Perfect Master speaks: [https://www.straightdope.com/21342485/did-jesus-have-siblings](https://www.straightdope.com/21342485/did-jesus-have-siblings) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/44 "2020-09-12T04:18:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The Perfect Master speaks: [Did Jesus have siblings? - The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/21342485/did-jesus-have-siblings) In other words, pretty much exactly what I said. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/45 "2020-09-12T14:02:03Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The tiny egg cup they found on someone’s British attic allegedly being the Holy Grail (I saw it on German TV, but I think it was a BBC production). Presumably the [‘Hawkstone Grail’](http://www.grahamphillips.net/chalice/chalice11.html). Its ‘discoverer’, Graham Phillips, has an extensive record of making improbable claims of this sort. He has claimed to have discovered, among other things, the site of Camelot, the identity of Robin Hood and the tombs of King Arthur and the Virgin Mary. [His website](http://www.grahamphillips.net/author/author.html) has this to say - > Critics often wonder how Graham has managed to solve so many historical enigmas. The answer is that he employs a hands-on, investigative approach to his research that gives him a cutting-edge advantage. By collating evidence from many different subject areas, such as archaeology, history and Egyptology, he is able to gain an overall perspective that those tied to a particular discipline are often prevented from doing. More often than not, he has simply applied himself to a mystery that academics have been unwilling, or even afraid to touch. Well, either that, or it is simply that he is always willing to jump to any conclusion he wants. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/46 "2020-09-12T14:03:34Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > The tiny egg cup they found on someone’s British attic allegedly being the Holy Grail (I saw it on German TV, but I think it was a BBC production). Wait! I may have found the Holy Grail. Is it red and made of plastic? ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/47 "2020-09-12T14:09:50Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Wait! I may have found the Holy Grail. Is it red and made of plastic? Did it have ping pong balls inside? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/48 "2020-09-12T15:53:58Z")
> [@APB](#): > > Presumably the [‘Hawkstone Grail’](http://www.grahamphillips.net/chalice/chalice11.html). Its ‘discoverer’, Graham Phillips, has an extensive record of making improbable claims of this sort. He has claimed to have discovered, among other things, the site of Camelot, the identity of Robin Hood and the tombs of King Arthur and the Virgin Mary. [His website](http://www.grahamphillips.net/author/author.html) has this to say - Yes, that’s the one I saw. Here’s the “Holy Grail”. Judge for yourself: [![](http://www.grahamphillips.net/chalice/images/marian_chalice_large.jpg) ](http://www.grahamphillips.net/chalice/images/marian_chalice_large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255/49 "2020-09-13T17:10:40Z")
Oh, sorry, that’s mine. I was _wondering_ where it had gone… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-they-ever-find-lost-treasures-on-any-of-the-tv-series/920255.md?page=2)