After 31 years, a real-life treasure hunt has come to a close with the uncovering of a jewel-like bird.

Dungeons & Dragons adventures often include the search for treasure. Author Jon-Collins Black was inspired by D&D to create a ...

After 31 years of anticipation, the world’s longest treasure hunt has come to an end with the remarkable discovery of a ...

It's a familiar tale: treasure-hunters racing to decipher clues from a mysterious book that will lead them to buried gold. But this particular hunt, and its waiting treasure, was no work of ...

The book, published in 1993, gained a cult-like following. A 31-year-long treasure hunt that attracted thousands of enthusiasts across France has come to an end. The hunt, called “On the Trail ...

The armchair treasure hunt book was created in 1993 by communications expert Régis Hauser under the pseudonym “Max Valentin” and illustrated by artist Michel Becker. Readers were challenged ...

There have been many armchair treasure hunts organised around the world ever since Kit Williams, the British artist, gave birth to the genre with Masquerade, his best­selling picture book of ...

but the kudos of having won the world's longest-running treasure-hunt. Sur La Trace de La Chouette d'Or (The Hunt for The Golden Owl) was an illustrated book first published in 1993, shortly after ...

The success of Paul King’s “Paddington” and “Paddington 2,” however, promoted the diminutive children’s-book hero to the ...

A decadeslong treasure hunt that has been fascinating participants ... Michel Becker, illustrator of the golden owl book and sculptor of the buried piece, revealed on the server (which is largely ...