The finder of the treasure wins an owl statuette made of gold, silver and diamonds worth more than $165,000.
A decades-long treasure hunt for a golden owl statuette in France finally came to an end after 31 years on Thursday.The treasure—a replica of the original golden owl statuette, which is made of gold, silver and diamonds—was buried somewhere in France back in 1993 by Régis Hauser, the author of the treasure hunt book On The Trail Of The Golden Owl. Written under the pseudonym Max Valentin, the book contains 11 riddles that solved the mystery of the treasure's location.
As previously announced, we are verifying the validity of the proposed solution.'No other information about the finder or the location of the item was revealed.The unearthing of the statuette comes after the hunt was embroiled in legal battles for several years after Hauser died in 2009, with not all treasure seekers being receptive of Becker's role as the new organizer of the hunt.
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