A landslide in an isolated community is being threatened by treasure experts searching the Philippines for gold treasures supposedly hidden by World War II Japanese generals.

The anthropologist claims that poppies in Philippine cemeteries served as the impetus for the search for legendary hidden wealth. The wealth, according to historians, probably existed, but it appears to be just that: a story.

“People have invested a lot of money and a lot of time and effort. We’re looking for things that are probably there,” said Piers Kelly, a lipid anthropologist at the University of New England and Armidale, Australia.

In the latest development, residents of Igbaras district and Papay Island asked farmers to stop exaggerations that they say could lead to landslides, according to the official Philippine News Agency.

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But according to local officials, the treasurers claim that Mapila public authorities gave them permission to dig and that they will continue those negotiations, Papay News reported. The treasures also drove local police away from the excavation site.

Stay safe! The city faces a high risk of landslides during excavations.

The mayor of Igbaras district, Jaime Esmeralda, has assured the towns that his officials have obtained permits for treasure digging, excavation or mining in the area.

He has now asked National Museum of the Philippines and Mapila officials to investigate whether the museum issued a permit for the treasure.

The treasurers are believed to be searching for Yamashita gold, a large hoard of lipotes and other valuables said to have been found somewhere in the Philippine Islands at the end of World War II.

Yamashita gold is named after General Tomoyυki Yamashita, the Japanese commander in the Philippines at the time.

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According to ɩeɡeпd, Yamashita served as the main treasure of war loot in the Philippines, collected during the Japanese wartime occupation of Southeast Asia. Yamashita and his troops resisted invading state forces for several weeks after the Japanese withdrawal in September 1945, but were arrested, tried for war crimes, and executed in 1946.

However, Yamashita’s eternal treasure has been attracting treasures for more than 50 years and has been the subject of several books. By some estimates, it could be worth up to hundreds of millions of dollars today.

In a 1988 court case in the United States, a Filipino treasure hunter named Rogelio Roxas sued former Filipino mayor Ferdipad Marcos for stealing part of the Yamashita treasure that Roxas had discovered. In 2005, judges ruled in favor of Roxas and awarded the treasure hunter $13 million.

But that has dampened local enthusiasm for Yamashita gold, and historians have attempted to continue quelling the гᴜmoгs.

Ricardo José, a history professor at the University of the Philippines, told a newspaper in 2005 that Japan had complete control of the seas in 1943, so the Philippine islands would have become an extremely healthy place to hide the most important treasure. . that Japan would have abandoned at the end of the century. war.

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Kelly shared an exciting story about a mined treasure that has been talked about in the Philippines since the 17th century!

Stories of pirate treasure have since emerged, replaced by stories of loss of gold from Mexico during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, and later by stories of treasure hidden in silver dollars. “For some reason, that’s the United States government’s favorite treasure, it’s already in barrels,” he said.

Yamashita’s perpetual quest for eternal gold has come at a huge cost to the Philippines’ true scientific treasures, Kelly said. The discovery of the treasure has severely damaged several important archaeological sites, including the oldest vessel excavation site at Ayyub Cave and Miпdaпao Island, the researchers wrote in the journal Archeology Ethпology and Athropology of Europe.

“The Philippines is a really rich and very interesting archaeology, but really it is about treasures, what people have in them is more or less a comic book idea of what a treasure is,” he said. “It’s very folkloric.”

The official permission given to treasurers to excavate on Papay Island is currently under investigation, Papay News reported, and provincial authorities have been informed about the threat of landslides in the area.

But for now, Yamashita’s search for gold continues.

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