It contains a map showing where a treasure was buried on the island by the pirate Captain Kidd.
"Tuesday loves to do real cooking as well as pretending," she says, gesturing to one side, where a treasure trove of kitchen paraphernalia sprawls out over the surfaces of a play kitchen.
It could also uncover treasures buried in the ground: in Bulgarian beliefs, it could split the ground at the place where a treasure lay so that people could locate it.
The game begins as three boys from the small Potos village disobey their Elder's instructions and trespass into a local waterfall, where a treasure is said to be kept.
The tour ended in a room where four treasured documents had been laid out, including Hans Christian Andersen's diaries, in tiny brown type ("They'd call it a blog today," Friedman said); a manuscript of Kierkegaard's "Either/Or"; and the diary of Jorgen Bronlund, the Arctic explorer, which was found with his body after his death, in Greenland, in 1907.
After they ransacked places where a competing treasure-seer said the plates were hidden, Smith decided to leave Palmyra.
In a city where light is treasured, he said, the architect had taken a floor-to-ceiling wall of glass and covered it up.
Will the equivalent of history texts in the year 5000 record a period in civilization where people actually treasured notions like inalienable rights?
Once upon a time there was an airy glass terminal that made even the most prosaic commuters feel as if they were in Europe, where railroads are treasured.
Such appearances are coveted in Asian-American neighborhoods, where people treasure the chance to mix with or be photographed alongside Mr. Liu, a trailblazer in city politics.
