The golden owl of the first edition was found in Dabo in Moselle

The documentary film “La Découverte de la Chouette d’Or”, broadcast on Friday in theaters all over France, reveals that the treasure was found in Dabo in Moselle on October 2, 2024.

The Golden Owl of the first edition was found in Dabo, in Moselle, on October 2, learned Franceinfo this Friday evening on the occasion of a broadcast of the documentary The discovery of the golden owl In a cinema room in Paris.

The enigma of the golden owl, a treasure hunt initiated in 1993, which brought together 200,000 “owners” and fed rumors and theories for 31 years, was resolved in October. She was based on a purse book entitled On the trace of the golden owlcontaining 11 textual and visual puzzles to solve to locate a golden -shaped gold statuette, buried somewhere in France. The statuette, of an initial value of around 150,000 euros, was accompanied by a money price.

A second edition of the golden owl will be launched in a few weeks. It will take between “three and six years” to resolve this second edition, said this Friday morning on Franceinfo Michel Becker, co -creator and master of the game. The new owl is “a high goldsmith’s piece” which is worth 250,000 and 300,000 euros. It was designed by the Christofle house. The first was worth a million francs in 1993, or nearly 100,000 euros.