The Major Treasure Room

The Major Treasure Room
First appearance:	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"
Created by:	Lee Falk and Sy Barry

The Major Treasure Room is one of the rooms of the Skull Cave. It in contains several priceless artifacts, given to or found by, The Phantom, throughout the centuries. See also the Minor Treasure Room.

The treasures

Introduced in the Newspaper strip stories

#	Object	First appearance		Story of origin
		Year	Story	According to the Newspaper stories	According to Team Fantomen stories
1	The Diamond Cup of Alexander the Great	1954	"Alexander's Cup"	"The Third Phantom" / "Alexander's Cup" (Conflicting stories)	–
2	Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur	1962	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	–	"The Legend of the Swords, Part 1: Excalibur"
3	The mummified Asp of Cleopatra	1962	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	–	"Cleopatra's Asp" / "The Art Collector" (Conflicting stories)
4	The Golden Laurel of Julius Caesar	1962	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	–	"Jungle Adventures: Caesar's Laurel"
5	The Ivory Horn of Roland	1962	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	–	"The Horn of Roland"
6	The Love Potion of Tristan and Isolde	1962	"Treasure of the Skull Cave"	–	–
7	The Wedding Ring of Cleopatra	1969	"The Golden People"	–	–
8	The Golden Flower of The Golden People	1969	"The Golden People"		–
9	Durandal, the sword of Roland	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	"The Legend of the Swords, Part 2: Durandal"
10	A Model of Noah's Ark, made from wood taken from the real Noah's Ark	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	"Jungle Adventures: Secret of the Gold Container"
11	The original script of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	–
12	The Great Ring of Nebuchadnezzar	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	"Nebuchadnezzar's Ring"
13	The Necklace of Nefertiti	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	–
14	The Lyre of Homer	1970	"Alexander's Diamond Cup"	–	"The Lyre of Homer"
15	The Wig from the original staging of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"	1971	"The Wig"		–
16	The Pen used by Shakespeare to write "Romeo and Juliet"	1974	"Phantom Treasure"	–	–
17	The Crown of Charlemagne	1994	"The Phantom Cowboy"	–	–
18	The Cowboy Hat of the 16th Phantom	1994	"The Phantom Cowboy"		–
19	The Crown of Emperor Joonkar	1997	"Joomkar's Crown"		–
20	The Carthaginian scroll	2000	"The Secret City"		–
21	A round shield with a small horse head insignia next to a sword and a horse head helmet (Prince Valiant)	2014	"The Scoundrel"	–	–
22	The Tenth Manuscript of the Song of Roland	2014	"The Scoundrel"	–	–
23	The Golden Fleece	2014	"The Scoundrel"	–	–

Introduced in the Team Fantomen stories

#	Object	First appearance
		Year	Story
1	The sword of Toghrul Beg, the Tartar	1977	"The Kali Sect"
2	The bottle ship made by Ben Oakes	1977	"The Ghost Pirates"
3	Model of the ship Eastern Dawn	1979	"The Floating Coffin"
4	A model of a steam train, a gift from queen Victoria	1980	"The Orient Express, Part 1"
5	The White Horseman (The White Rider)	1984	"The Floating Island"
6	Julie's microscope, a gift from professor Louis Pasteur in 1886	1985	"Julie"
7	A sword hilt	1986	"The Moor of Death"
8	The Venetian crystal glass	1987	"The Doomsday Weapon"
9	Early edition of Red Riding Hood by the Grimm brothers and a jar with a deformed hand	1988	"The Castle of Evil"
10	Remaining script pages from an unknown play by William Shakespeare	1989	"The Hunchback"
11	The Aztek Crystal Skull	1989	"The Crystal Skull"
12	A jade box with schematics of the Pyramid of Cheops	1990	"The Secret of the Pyramids"
13	A bent silver tube	1991	"From the Other Side of the Grave"
14	First edition of Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 Spanish novel El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha	1992	"The Knight of La Mancha"
15	The key to Prince Saddam Ben Raschid's treasure room	1992	"The Island of the Living Dead"
16	The snuffbox of Governor Loder	1993	"Kingdom of the Pirates"
17	The Apple of Nero's Eye, also known as The Key of Solomon	1977 1995	"Mystery in Rome" (first appearance) "The Sword in the Stone" (mentioned as former object in the Treasure Room)
18	An alien clothing	1996	"Mission to Antarctica"
19	First edition of Jerome K. Jerome's novel Three Men in a Boat	1997	"The Ghostly Ruins"
20	Star of Sekhmet, an Egyptian figurine with a jewel	1998	"The Star of Sekhmet"
21	President Abraham Lincoln's ceremonial sword	1999	"The Assassination of President Lincoln"
22	Gold ducat with a hole through	1999	"The Montbar Treasure"
23	Sami hunting knife	1999	"The Barbary Pirates"
24	Head of a robot soldier	2000	"The Temple"
25	First edition of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe	2001	"Shipwrecked"
26	Little John's long bow	2002	"The Long Bow of Little John"
27	The Sami troll drum	2003	"Curse of the Troll Drum"
28	The Venetian doctor's mask	2003	"The Cruel Revenge"
29	A copper container with a prophecy Nostradamus gave to the 1st Phantom in 1560	2003	"Secret of the Skulls Pt 1"
30	A leather hood	2004	"The Hood"
31	The Skull Necklace	2005	"Son of the Pirate Queen, Part 1: The Skull Necklace"
32	A fake hydra	2008	"Secret of the Leech Pond"
33	Copy of the Kensington Runestone	2012	"The Runestone Saga"
34	The 1st Phantom's knight's armour from Malta	1986 2015	"The Battle on Malta" (first appearance) "Kit and Heloise on Adventure" (as object in the Treasure Room)

Introduced in the Fratelli Spada stories

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#	Object	First appearance
		Year	Story
1	William Tell's Bow	1972	"The Yellow Avalanche"
2	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	1972	"The Yellow Avalanche"

Introduced in the RGE stories

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#	Object	First appearance
		Year	Story
1	The Gold Belt	1981	"The Great Champion"
2	The Sword of Kangula	1983	"Betrayal in Kangula"

Behind the scenes

The Major Treasure Room was first mentioned and seen in "Treasure of the Skull Cave". The first of its objects, Diamond Cup of Alexander the Great, was however introduced eight years earlier, in "Alexander's Cup".

In "The Phantom Cowboy" a partial list of objects in the Major Treasure Room is seen for the first time.