Untouched pyramid stuffed with treasure

Archaeologists uncover an untouched pyramid stuffed with treasure

What is buried in the sand?

Reports of archaeologists opening an untouched pyramid chamber overflowing with treasure have raced across social feeds, framed as a once‑in‑a‑lifetime discovery that rewrites Egyptian history.

When I trace those claims back to their sources, however, the story that emerges is less about a single sensational find and more about how modern audiences consume, amplify, and sometimes distort real archaeological work in Egypt’s pyramids.

Instead of a verified new pyramid packed with gold, the available evidence points to a swirl of older excavations, educational explainers, speculative commentary, and click‑driven headlines that have been stitched together into a viral narrative.

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Understanding how that happened is essential if we want to separate genuine breakthroughs from unverified tales while still appreciating the very real wonders that Egyptian archaeology continues to reveal.

The ET Sumerian King's List of the Middle East - Worth more than gold in ancient times: jade

How a “sealed pyramid” story went viral

Which other pharaohs got a mask?

The core claim behind the viral posts is simple and cinematic: a 4,000‑year‑old pyramid, supposedly untouched since antiquity, is opened to reveal a chamber stacked with treasure and perfectly preserved artifacts.

That framing appears in multiple sensational write‑ups, including one widely shared piece describing a “sealed Egyptian pyramid” whose opening allegedly “shocked” archaeologists, language that is echoed in a similar narrative carried by a separate online news story.

Both accounts lean heavily on dramatic description, but neither provides the kind of concrete details that would normally accompany a major archaeological announcement, such as the pyramid’s precise designation, the lead excavation institution, or peer‑reviewed documentation. More

• Alexander Clark, Morning Overview via MSN, "Archaeologists uncover an untouched pyramid stuffed with treasure"

Louvre jewel heist: suspects won't talk

(WW2 Accounts) 2 suspects arrested in Louvre heist. Who are the suspects? What's known

What other treasures are housed in the Louvre?

On Oct. 19, 2025, thieves disguised as construction workers stole eight pieces of the French Crown Jewels valued at €88 million [$100-150 million U.S. dollars] from the Galerie d'Apollon (lit. "Apollo's Gallery") of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

The robbery took less than eight minutes, of which the thieves spent four inside the museum itself, and took place during regular museum hours [1][2]. It was the first art theft from the Louvre since the 1998 theft of the painting Le chemin de Sèvres [3][4].

(China Observer) Chinese female, 24, steals gold from French museum

At least they have leads. Come see me!

ARRESTS: On Oct. 25, 2025, two suspects from Seine-Saint-Denis, both around 30 years old, were arrested, one of them at Charles de Gaulle Airport as he was preparing to board a flight abroad [5][6]. Police are still looking for the others as the suspects prepare for a long interrogation [and possible torture]. More

Philippines gold artifacts, no mines

AI depictions should not be taken literally.

(Time forge Stories) BUTUAN, Philippines. This city served as the former capital of the Rajahnate of Butuan before 1001 until about 1521. The city used to be known during that time as the best in gold and boat manufacturing in the entire Philippine archipelago, having traded with places as far as Champa, Ming, Srivijaya, Majapahit, and the Bengali coasts. It is located at the northeastern part of the Agusan Valley, Mindanao, sprawling across the Agusan River. It is bounded to the north, west, and south by Agusan del Norte, to the east by Agusan del Sur, and to the northwest by Butuan Bay. More

Jewel heist at the Louvre, France

What we worship: Monas over mountains

(Channel 4 News) No one cared about the Mona Lisa until someone stole it in 1911. Then it became famous, was recovered, became subjected to the Mandela Effect, and grew in fame every year since, until an entire wall then room became dedicated to it. When we visited, the rooms were beautiful, even the halls were grand, but the mob in front of this one painting was ridiculous. At that time it could still be photographed, but taking a photo of the photographers seemed more appropriate.

(CNN) "An amateur move," says a jewel thief of Louvre heist

Now it has a shield and guards, and goodness knows it's probably not the original, just a forgery with the real thing in a safe somewhere. The Louvre's security is behind the times, possibly because Pres. Macron's husband (and the couple's ridiculous fight with American Candace Owens about gender) and the riots in the streets are sucking all the oxygen and discretionary funds that should be applied to keeping the imperial booty and irreplaceable treasures in this pyramidal repository safe.

(Primal Space) The Greatest Art Heist in History: Hello, Mona Lisa

• Channel 4 News, Oct. 20, 2025; former jewel thief Larry Lawton, CNN, Oct. 20, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Priceless relics of the Buddha found

Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D.

Bones of the Buddha is a documentary about the British excavation of one of the eight stupas (Buddhist burial mound and reliquary found in Piprahwa, now India, near the border with Nepal) where the historical Buddha's cremation remains (sarira or relics) were placed after the Buddha's final nirvana (parinibbana). More

• Ranajit Pal's Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander makes sense of the ancient history of proto-India and India and sheds light on the real motives of Alexander the Great in his Gedrosian expedition.

What treasure was in the stupa?

(Doug's Dhamma) William Claxton Peppe excavates on his land in India

Bones of the Buddha: full documentary puts this monumental find in context

• Charles Allen; Bones of the Buddha (documentary); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Treasure trove beneath 1,300-y-o Buddha

 

The Buddha reclining into final nirvana (Unsplash/Sam Szuchan)

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Digging crew surprised to find ‘treasure trove’ beneath 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue in Thailand

พระพุทธไสยาสวัดพระเชตุพน (Wat Pho)

The discovery of treasure troves always makes for interesting stories. One such incident comes from Thailand, where workers found a massive collection of gold, silver, and bronze while digging a drainage system, states Popular Mechanics.

The workers were digging four feet below the famous reclining Buddha statue in the Wat Thammachak Sema Ram Temple complex in Northeastern Thailand when they came across the mind-blowing collection.

• Wat Pho, Bangkok's giant reclining Buddha

The community was stunned that the Buddha statue they had been venerating for years was lying on such a valuable treasure. 

The crew spotted the treasure inside a container. In total, the collection had 33 ancient ornaments, made from gold, silver, and bronze, according to Thailand’s Fine Arts Department. There were several kinds of jewelry pieces inside the container, ranging from rings, earrings, to hoops.

Researchers believe that the ornaments were 1,300 years old, based on their designs. The style of the found jewelry was very similar to what was popular in the Dvaravati period, which lasted from the 6th to the 11th century in Thailand.

Researchers think that the collection could be offerings to the Buddha Shakyamuni, as the temple was massively popular during the Dvaravati period, according to Interesting Engineering.

The work on the jewelry pieces is clearly indicative of the exceptional artistic talent within the community back then. Similar collections have been spotted in places like Phu Khao Thong in Ranong Province and Tha Chana in Surat Thani.

This implies that in the past, there was an extensive network of cultural exchange throughout the Southeast Asian country. More

• Somdatta Maity, Front Page Detectives via MSN.com, May 16, 2025; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Golden Temple: Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma

Bagan (Pagan) and Shwedagon Pagoda: The Cosmic Geometry of Burma’s Buddhist Temples | SLICE

(SLICE) Across the vast Asian continent, temples and sanctuaries stretch out in harmony with the land, their horizontal lines reflecting a deep connection to nature and the living world.

At their core lies an intricate sacred geometry inspired by the cosmos, the elements, and the human form — a fusion of spirituality and design that transcends time.

In Burma (Myanmar), this connection reaches its zenith. The Shwedagon Pagoda, gilded with nearly 60 tons of gold, rises as a beacon of faith (saddha, confidence in the Buddha) and devotion, shimmering under the sun.

Its spire points to the heavens (sagga), yet its base remains firmly rooted in the earth (Bhumi) — a symbol of the link between the divine and humanity.

Meanwhile, the plains of Bagan (formerly Pagan), with their breathtaking expanse of over 2,000 ancient temples, monuments, and stupas, showcase an unparalleled architectural legacy.

These temples, born of devotion and ambition, reflect a civilization’s desire to immortalize its beliefs in stone and art.

This profound bond between humanity and the cosmos, visible in Asia’s sacred structures, invites us to marvel not only at the beauty of these monuments but also at the resilience and creativity of the civilizations that built them.

From the serene plains of Bagan to the golden splendor of Shwedagon, these sacred spaces stand as timeless testaments to the spiritual quest for harmony with the universe.

Documentary: Sacred Spaces – Asian Temples: Humans, Nature, and Gods directed by Véronique Legendre. Production: ZED, ARTE FRANCE, CuriosityStream.

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• SLICE in Burma, Dec. 12, 2024; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Jewel Sutra (Ratana Sutta)

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All beings gathered here

from earth and aether

may we all be happy at heart

to listen carefully to what is said.

All beings, heed:

Love human beings,

who day and night make offerings

and please protect them diligently.

There is no wealth here or beyond,

no sublime jewel found in heaven,

that equals the Enlightened One.

This sublime jewel is the Buddha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

Cessation, dispassion, deathless, sublime

attained by the Scythian Sage in samādhi --

without equal is that Dharma.

This sublime jewel is the Dharma:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

The purification praised by the Buddha Supreme

is said to be the “absorption with immediate fruit.”

No equal to that absorption is found.

This sublime jewel is the Dharma:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

The eight individuals praised by the wise

are the four pairs of the Awakened One’s disciples,

worthy of offerings and all other courtesies.

For what is given to them is abundantly fruitful.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

I go for guidance to the Teacher, the Teaching, and the successfully Taught (tricycle.org)

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Dedicated to the Buddha’s dispensation,

strong-minded, free of craving for sense,

they have attained the aim, plunged into deathless freedom

and enjoy a cooling they have thus gained.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

As a boundary-post set firmly in the ground

is unshaken by winds of the four directions,

I say a supreme person is just this way,

who knows-and-sees the enlightening truths.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

Those who fathom the enlightening truths [sacca]

taught by the one of deepest wisdom

do not undergo more than seven rebirths

even if they are extremely negligent.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

When they attain the eye of wisdom,

they give up three things:

personality view, skeptical doubt, and

any clinging to rules or rituals.

They are freed from four miserable planes

and cannot do six heinous (karmic) actions.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

Even if they do some unskillful deed

through body, speech, or mind,

they are unable to conceal it,

which is said of those who have seen the Truth.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

As a tall forest tree springing flowers

in the first month of summer

he taught the supreme Dharma

leading to cessation, to ultimate freedom.

This sublime jewel is the Buddha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

The knower, giver, and bringer of the sublime

taught the most sublime Dharma.

This sublime jewel is the Buddha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

The past is ended, nothing anew is produced:

Their minds hanker after no future rebirth.

Spent seeds desire no growth,

The ever-mindful become as still as this lamp.

This sublime jewel is the Noble Saṅgha:

By this truth, may all beings be well!

All beings gathered here

of earth and aether,

the Enlightened One is honored by devas and humans!

We honor the Buddha! May all be safe!

All beings gathered here

of earth and aether,

the Enlightened One is honored by devas and humans!

We honor the Dharma! May all be safe!

All beings gathered here

of earth and aether,

the Enlightened One is honored by devas and humans!

We honor the Noble Saṅgha! May all be safe!

• Dhr. Seven (trans.), Kalyani (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Caves in Spain, archeology, meditation

Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek via MSN, 12/6/23; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Sanditthika.org via Beth Upton (bethupton.com)

In modern Spain today, there is a new cave meditation community (sanditthika.org)

The caves of Spain will be even more famous by a new Buddhist community in them.

Site where evidence of Paleolithic dwelling was found within La Garma cave complex in Cantabria, northern Spain. The dwelling was constructed around 16,800 years ago, according to archeologists (© Proyecto La Garma/Gobierno de Cantabria).

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The Buddhist cave community of Spain

Archeologists have uncovered evidence of a cave dwelling that was constructed around 16,800 years ago by prehistoric humans.

The dwelling was found in the La Garma cave complex in the autonomous community of Cantabria, northern Spain, the local government announced in a statement.

The new discovery is "one of the best preserved Paleolithic dwellings" in the world, according to the Government of Cantabria. The Paleolithic, also referred to as the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that extends from the earliest use of stone tools more than 3 million years ago to around 12,000 years ago.

Beth Upton (bethupton.com) is an accomplished former British Buddhist nun now in Spain

Buddhist Spanish cave community: Sanditthika

La Garma is a "unique" archeological site that boasts an impressive collection of rock art and Paleolithic remains, including thousands of fossils, according to the World Monuments Fund.

• Beth Upton's Spanish cave center | Sandiṭṭhika Meditation Community (sanditthika.org)

The complex forms part of a world-renowned network of caves in northern Spain that are listed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Inside a Spanish cave along the coast

This listing includes the famous Cave of Altamira in Cantabria that features striking prehistoric cave art dating as far back as around 35,000 years ago. To date, five levels of caves have been discovered at La Garma, which preserves evidence of human activity spanning over 300,000 years, right up until the Middle Ages.

The original entrance to the cave's Lower Gallery was blocked by a landslide around 16,000 years ago, preserving the ancient remains inside intact, turning it into a kind of prehistoric "time capsule," according to the local government.

The latest discovery at La Garma is the prehistoric dwelling from 16,800 years ago, which occupies an oval space of almost 54 square feet. The dwelling is delimited by an alignment of stone blocks and stalagmites that supported a structure of sticks and skins leaning against a ledge of the cave wall.

Beth Upton comes from a forest tradition in the Burmese jungle of Pa Auk Monastery

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Spanish caves have served many good purposes

In the center of the dwelling, the researchers found evidence of a small bonfire, around which lie several remains left behind by the hunter-gatherers who lived there. These include antler and bone instruments, as well as evidence of fur working and stone tool production.

In total, the archeologists documented more than 4,600 objects during their investigations, primarily the bones of deer, horses, and bison, but also pieces of flint, needles, and a proto-harpoon, as well as shells of marine mollusks.

Aurochs — an extinct giant cattle species — painted on cave walls show purposeful art.

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I'll make it so that everyone can meditate here.

They also found decorated bones, among them, a spectacular pierced bone of an aurochs — an extinct giant cattle species — with an engraved representation of that animal, as well as several pendants that the residents of the dwelling may have worn. More + VIDEO

• Mysterious prehistoric monument discovered by archeologists: 'Very rare'
• Archeologists 'surprised' by 6,500-year-old Stone Age site near Arctic
• Bones stored in box for decades turn out to be Neanderthal remains
• British Buddhist Beth Upton's Spanish Sanditthika Cave Meditation Community

Meditation caves in Spain? Living in simplicity, growing in wisdom (sanditthika.org)

Buddhist EXORCISM: The Jewel Sutra

Ven. Piyadassi (trans.), Ratana Sutra (Sn 2.1); Dhr. Seven, P. Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION

Ven. Ananda, the Buddha's attendant

The occasion for this sutra, according to the Commentary, is that in the city of Vesali there was a famine afflicting everyone, particularly the poor. Due to the presence of decaying corpses, unclean or "evil" spirits begin to hang around the city. What follows is a pestilence. Plagued by these three fearful things -- famine, unclean spirits, and pestilence -- the citizens seek the help of the Buddha, who is residing in Rajagaha.

Bringing a large number of monastics including his attendant, Ven. Ananda, the Buddha goes to Vesali. When he arrives, there come torrential rains that sweep away the decaying corpses. This purifies the atmosphere and makes the city clean. Then the Buddha delivers this "Jewel or Treasure Discourse" (Ratana Sutra) to Ananda.

He then gives him instructions as to how to tour the city with the Licchavi citizens reciting the sutra as a mark of protection (paritta) to the people of Vesali.

Ananda follows the instructions and sprinkles the sanctified water from the Buddha's own alms bowl. As a consequence the unclean spirits are exorcised and the pestilence subsides. Thereafter, Ananda returns with the citizens of Vesali to the Public Hall where the Buddha and his disciples have assembled awaiting his arrival.

• [NOTE 1: Ratana means "precious jewel, gem, treasure." Here the term is applied to the Triple Gem, Three Guides, or Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.]

There the Buddha recites this Jewel Sutra to the gathering:

The SUTRA

1. "Whatever (non-human) beings are assembled here, terrestrial or celestial, may they have peace of mind, and may they listen attentively to these words:

2. "O, beings, listen closely! May you all radiate loving-kindness to those human beings who, by day and night, bring offerings to you (offer merit to you). Therefore, protect them with diligence.

3. "Whatever treasure there be either here or in the many worlds beyond, whatever precious jewel there be in celestial worlds, there is none comparable to the Tathagata (the Perfect One, the Wayfarer). This precious jewel is the Buddha. (Literally, in the Buddha is this precious jewel.) By this (asseveration of) truth may there be happiness.

Unclean spirits (Hieronymus Bosch)

4. "That Cessation, that Letting Go, that Deathless State (nirvana) supreme, the calm and collected Shakyan/Scythian Sage (Shakyamuni the Buddha) realized. There is nothing comparable to this (nirvana) Dharma. This precious jewel is the Dharma. (Literally, in the Dharma is this precious jewel.) By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness. 
 
5. "The supreme Buddha extolled a path of purification (the Noble Eightfold Path) calling it the path that unfailingly brings coherence (samadhi). There is nothing comparable to this coherence. This precious jewel is the Dharma. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

6. "The eight persons extolled by virtuous people constitute four pairs. They are the disciples of the Buddha and are worthy of offerings. Gifts given to them yield [exponentially] rich results. This precious jewel is the Sangha. (Literally, in the Sangha is this precious jewel.) By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

7. "With a steadfast mind and applying themselves well in the dispensation of the Buddha Gautama, free from (defilements), they have attained to that which should be attained (the stages of enlightenment culminating in arhatship) encountering the Deathless. They enjoy the peace of nirvana freely obtained (i.e., obtained without payment, avyayena, KhpA). This precious jewel is the Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

8. "As a post deeply planted in the earth stands unshaken by winds from the four quarters so, too, I declare is the righteous person who comprehends with wisdom the Four Noble Truths. This precious jewel is the  [Noble or Arya] Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

9. "Those who realized the Four Noble Truths well taught by the one profound in wisdom (the Buddha, the "Awakened One"), even though they may be exceedingly heedless, they will not take an eighth rebirth* (in the realm of sense spheres). This precious jewel is the Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

• [*The reason it is stated that there will be no eighth rebirth for a person who has attained the stage of stream entry, the first stage of enlightenment, is that such a being -- now cleansed of some of the defilements (kilesas), taints (asavas), bonds (samyojanas), and corruptions (upakkilesas) that bind one to rebirth -- can at most only be reborn seven times (in the realm of sense spheres, according to Ven. Piyadassi but nowhere corroborated by the texts that we can find) before attaining full enlightenment and complete and final liberation from all rebirth and suffering.]

10. "With his gaining of insight one abandons three states of mind, namely: self-illusion, doubt, and clinging to mere rites and rituals as a means of trying to gain enlightenment (sīlabbata-parāmāsa), should there be any. One is also fully freed from the four states of woe and is, therefore, incapable of committing the six major wrongdoings.* This precious jewel is the Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

• [*Six major wrongdoings: i. matricide, ii. patricide, iii. the murder of arhats (fully enlightened beings), iv. the shedding of a buddha's blood, v. causing a schism in the Sangha (anantarika karma), and vi. pernicious wrong views or false beliefs with fixed destiny/results (niyata micca ditthi).]

11. "Any harmful action a stream-winner* may still do by deed, word, or thought, one is incapable of concealing it since it has been proclaimed that such concealing is impossible for one who has seen the Path (to Nirvana). This precious jewel is the Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

• [*A stream-entrant (sotapanna), the first stage of enlightenment.]

Woodland terrestrial-devas gathered round.

12. "As the woodland groves though in the early heat of the summer months are crowned with blossoming flowers, even so is the sublime Dharma leading to (the calm of) nirvana that is taught (by the Buddha) as the highest good (blameless and beyond the reach of any further suffering). This precious jewel is the Buddha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

13. "The Peerless Excellent One (the Buddha) the Knower (of Nirvana), the Giver (of Nirvana), the Bringer (of the Noble Path), taught the excellent Dharma (Teaching, Doctrine). This precious jewel is the Buddha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

14. "Their past (karma) is spent, their new no more arises [an arhat makes only kriya not karma], their mind/heart to future becoming no longer clings. The seed (of rebirth-consciousness) has evaporated; they have no more craving for rebirth.

Those wise beings fade out (of this "continued wandering on" of samsara through rebirth and suffering) as the flame of this lamp (which has just faded away). This precious jewel is the Sangha. By this (asseveration of the) truth may there be happiness.

• [9:  These last three stanzas are recited by Sakka King of the Devas (KhpA).]

Sakka is Indra is St. Michael.

15. "Whatever (non-human) beings are assembled here, terrestrial or celestial, come let us salute the Buddha, the Perfect One (Tathagata), honored by devas and humans. May there be happiness.

16. "Whatever beings are assembled here, terrestrial or celestial, come let us salute the perfect Dharma, honored by devas and humans. May there be happiness.

17. "Whatever beings are assembled here, terrestrial or celestial, come let us salute the perfect Sangha, honored by devas and humans. May there be happiness."