Forrest Fenn’s hidden treasure, after ten years, was found

Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico art and antiquities dealer and amateur archaeologist, buried a decade ago $2 million worth of jewels, gold, and artefacts. Since hiding it in the Rocky Mountains, thousands of treasure hunters have tried to find it. Fenn announced the news on its website on Sunday. “It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains, and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago,” he wrote. “So the search is over.”
In creating the treasure hunt, the antiquities dealer hid clues to the treasure’s location in his memoirs, The Thrill of the Chase, published in 2010, with a 24-line poem inviting to search for the Romanesque bronze chest of the 13th century. It is believed that more than 300,000 people tried it during these years; some even quit their jobs to get it.
Fenn said the person who found it sent him a photograph with the hidden treasure. Barbara Andersen, a Chicago real estate attorney, filed a lawsuit against the person who found the chest, claiming that she first figured out the riddle, but that the winner cheated on her and chased her to the scene.
Forrest Fenn wanted to create the treasure hunt to offer hope to people who had lost their jobs during the recession.