Chile under fire over treasure hunter's plan to unearth legendary pirate hoard
Archaeologists and environmentalists condemn proposal to use heavy machinery to seek 18th-century trove
The quest for a fabled treasure trove containing jewels, gold and original Incan artefacts – and believed to have been buried on a South Pacific island by 18th century Spanish pirates – could be about to reach its dramatic conclusion.
But the decision to allow a Dutch American textiles magnate to use heavy machinery to dig on Chile’s sparsely populated has sparked an outraged response from archaeologists and
