In search of a golden age https://www.mpg.de/10681405/folklore-tradition-treasure-hunt-philippines
Yamashita’s gold: treasure-hunters in the Philippines continue to search for fabled World War II treasures rumoured to be left behind by Japanese soldiers. But such gold hoards probably don’t exist. Instead, the stories are fundamentally about resources unfairly withheld from their deserving recipients and tend to correspond to periods of colonial occupation and political suppression according to Piers Kelly from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.
History A cross-cultural study tests the extent to which the consumption of wine and beer