The set of financial resources that a State possesses is known as the public treasury.
A treasure is an amount of money , precious objects or other values that is stored or hidden. Treasures - a term from the Latin thesaurus , which in turn derives from a Greek word - are usually associated with pirate stories, where buccaneers hid chests of gold on islands and other secret places, so they could go look for them at the moment. appropriate.
This concept is also used to express that a person is very good or has unusual values, considering them very valuable and worthy of esteem ; In the same way, it can be presented to talk about an object that contains sentimental or intellectual wealth greater than the price to which it is equivalent. For example: "This book is a true treasure, it was printed in 1786 and its cover is laminated in gold."
The public treasury
The public treasury is the set of financial resources of a State . It can be made up of cash , securities or credits. The state agency that is dedicated to budget preparation and administration is known as the Department of the Treasury .
The United States Department of the Treasury , created in 1789 to raise financial support for the Government , is the most influential agency of its kind. Measures taken by the US Treasury often have repercussions in much of the world.
The current Secretary of the United States Treasury (May 2023) is Janet Yellen , who is the first woman in history to assume this important position.
It is often believed that pirates buried treasures and then went looking for them at the right time.
An endless search
Throughout history, myths have been created about the important legacies of various cultures; Many of them refer to certain assets of inestimable cultural value that have been lost or have been buried under rubble after certain catastrophes and that researchers have continued searching for centuries without being able to find them. The following are some of these treasures.
The tomb of Alexander the Great is believed to be in Alexandria or Siwa ( Egypt ) since after dying in Babylon it was known that he had been transferred to this land, however archaeologists have not been able to find it to date.
Popular knowledge assures that a treasure of 20 gold ingots is hidden in the Pasocha volcano , which is called the Treasure of Atahualpa , which has not yet been located, despite incessant searches .
The well-known Noah's Ark is one of those lost treasures that, although humanity has been searching for them for a long time, has not yet been discovered. Theoretically it should be located on Mount Arabat and it would only be a wooden structure with religious and historical value , but not material . Its disappearance makes many doubt the existence of said ark.
Other lost treasures
Another lost treasure that continues to be searched by specialists is the Spanish galleon that bore the name "Our Lady of Juncal" and that sank in the waters that separate the coast of Mexico from Havana in the 18th century and has never been known. absolutely nothing of him; This story is irradiated with popular beliefs and statements about those supernatural affairs that take place at sea . It is worth mentioning that it is not the only ship that has disappeared without a trace; Another of them is Hernán Cortés 's galleon, which sank full of riches on the way back from Cuba to Spain .
The tomb where the kings of the Ming Dynasty rest is also one of the mysteries that humanity has not yet been able to reveal and although it is known, for example, that Emperor Jianwen was buried in Beijing and his body was tirelessly searched for, they have never been able to find with the.