Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The Treasure Trove was enormous.

It's a recent discovery in northwest Saudi Arabia.

In fact, just this summer, archaeologists published their findings after years of work.

What they found stunned them, a massive stockpile, deep underground, in the natural tunnel

formed by a hollow lava tube, and the horde inside hundreds of thousands of treasures.

It's a find that overshadows the usual hordes that are turned up these days by folks with

metal detectors and a keen sense of ancient burial sites.

For instance, someone recently set the new record for finding the largest old English treasure

horde.

As important as their discovery is, it was just 131 gold coins, and four more odd gold

objects.

The discovery outshines the famous Sutton-Hoo burial ship, which had only offered up 37

coins to archaeologists.

By comparison, the massive scale of the lava tube treasure surpasses it all by far.

We can start to make sense of that though when we realized just how long it took the hordes

to work their stockpile.

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