BURIED TREASURE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 34, 8 August 1925, Page 16

BURIED TREASURE

SEARCH INSPIRED BY ANCIENT

LEGEND.

The Archaoological Society of Azerbeidjan has decided to make an attempt, to discover the treasure which, according to a legend," Alexander the Great buried near Baku,, writes the' Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Express." The . burial .of the treasure is. said ,to.have, beeri.l'due" to' & mutiny'of Alexander's;; troops while the great'commander-was!, crossing the Caspian plains from Persia.: ; about 300 B.C. Although there are no definite historical-'-indications as to the-hiding-place of the legendary treasure,'" it has been established that there was v 'mutiny of Alexander's troops.;; ":;: Th^' story of the' existence of ilie^fabulous. treasure has. beeir.pop't'ilar]y'"ac\e'eptcd i&* Azerbeidjan for at least two centuries. \ The actual decision of the Archaeological Society to send out an exploration party is based on the statement of ah' old man named Sitvelieff, who claims to know-the actual spot where the treasure is supposed to be buried.- SayeKeff fur- ' ,nished a statement some sixty years ago to the Caucasian ■ .Viceroy, .and. certain work was then undertaken by th« Gov-. eminent, but no records of the'"result'are available. It is said that Sav-eliefl obtained his knowledge of the location" of the treasure from an ancient, map .which was stolen from the library' of the Sultan of Turkey. The map indicates' that the treasure is located near the village of Andreyevka, in the Shemakha, district, about sixty miles from Baku. The Archaeological Society, while discrediting the legend of the "buried treasure, hopes that excavation work may lead to the discovery of relics which will shed light on the life and habits of the nations who inhabited the present Azerbeidjan territory during previous epochs.