The 40-Pound Chest
The chest is nearly a square foot in size and weighs 40 pounds when full. It supposedly contains artifacts that Fenn, a self-taught archaeologist, amassed during his own sometimes controversial explorations in the Southwest. The millionaire was criticized in the 1990s for excavating the San Lazaro Pueblo Indian site he bought, for example, and the FBI searched his home in 2009 in connection with the sale of artifacts looted from the Four Corners area, though no charges were filed…