The churning landscape here, of cranes and half-finished high-rises and new highways, speaks of a gargantuan national project inconceivable without the treasure globalization has furnished.
It seems a wonder that anyone would surrender sports treasure without a fight or without making a profit in a bottom-line age, not when approximate valuations and eBay are just a smartphone away.
"Because small museums without great treasures are generally free from disasters of this kind, they are less aware of the danger," he said.
EVEN without the treasures, the house exudes charm, with its exposed beams, a country kitchen that still has the house's original 1930s coal and gas stove and the big covered porch that Mr. Littlefield and Mr. Stewart added.
However, the corridor would be nothing without the treasures that lie inside it.
Our twins were left to suffer without these treasured items for an entire week.
The duchess died in 1920 without reclaiming the treasure, and last year it turned up in storage in a government office in Stockholm.
Such was the case at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk in 1939, when work begun by a competent amateur was taken over by a team of experts who were able to uncover a great Anglo-Saxon burial boat and its treasure, without doubt the most remarkable archaeological find ever made in Britain.
On April 25th, after returning from the wreck site in the Dry Tortugas, Stemm appeared with Morris on a Tampa television station, to discuss their find: a Spanish ship, possibly carrying, in today's currency, as a reporter at the station put it, "up to eight hundred million dollars" — a treasure without precedent.
In his foreword to "China for the West," an authoritative publication on the Mottahedeh collection, Nelson A. Rockefeller, a friend and fellow collector of Chinese export porcelain, described the collection as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field".
