World's Longest Treasure Hunt for a 'Golden Owl' That Commenced in 1993 Finally Came to an End A three-decade-old treasure ...

The hunt for the Chouette d’Or was launched in April 1993 when a French businessman who had adopted the alias Max Valentin said he had buried a bronze statue of an owl somewhere in France ...

Somewhere in France there lies buried a small bronze statuette of an owl in flight. Whoever finds it is promised not just the prize of the original sculpture made of gold and silver, but the kudos ...

The complex clues were supposed to lead to a precise point somewhere in France, where a bronze replica of the actual golden owl would be found under the ground. The winner would get the precious ...

Bidders on this bronze owl apparently agreed. It soared to more than four times its high estimate when it was offered at Phillips’s day sale last week. One of the lesser-known graduates of the ...