Underground galleries, part of Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project are pictured under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, on August 28, 2015 in Walbrzych, Poland. JANEK SKARZYNSKI | AFP | Getty Images

Scientists have quashed hopes of finding a long-lost Nazi train from World War II carrying some 300 tons of gold, precious stones and weapons buried deep in the hills of southern Poland.

Treasure-hunters flocked to the hills of Lower Silesia, Poland, in August after two people wrote to the local district council, claiming to know the location of the secret stash. Emergency services and the army all helped with the underground search amid a series of further revelations via the use of radar imaging.

However, researchers from Poland's AGH University of Science and Technology presented further findings on Tuesday afternoon and claimed that there was little evidence that a hidden train actually existed.



The research failed to dampen the optimism from other speakers at Tuesday's press conference, which included representatives from exploration company XYZ SC and the Discovery Channel. Other speakers at the conference had spoken of the possibility of there being an 92 meter "anomaly" underground and the existence of a large amount of metal, according to the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper.

The tunnels supposedly form part of the Riese Project (riese meaning "giant" in German). This was a construction project in Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945 which was made using the labor of prisoners of war and prisoners of concentration camps.

