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He was looking for farm machinery parts, and instead he found a coin depot

On 26 February, a hoard of Lithuanian coins from the 17th century was accidentally discovered in the Polish village of Zaniówka. The discovery was made by farmer Michał Łotys, who scanned the field with a metal detector to find lost parts of mechanical agricultural machinery. Instead, he discovered a ceramic jug containing coins.

3 200-year-old gold necklaces, beads and jewellery in a double tomb from the Bronze Age

Armenian and Polish archaeologists have discovered a double grave from the Late Bronze Age with rich furnishings. Among other things, it contained gold and carnelian necklaces, bronze bracelets, gold and pewter pendants. The remains of two adults lay in a stone-lined box, which also contained the rare remains of a wooden burial bed and preserved Syro-Mesopotamian pottery.

At the beginning of World War II he deposited a valuable treasure, 80 years later his grandson went to find it

In September 1939, Adam and his four Glazewski sons buried their family valuables and fled their ownfrom the advancing Soviet army on one side of the country and the Nazi army on the other. 80 years later, his grandson Jan decided to dig up the treasure full of precious silver objects and coins.

Polish detectorists discover unique bronze and human sacrifices of the Lusatian culture

In early January, detectorists in northern Poland near the town of Chełmno discovered dozens of bronze objects and ornaments along with numerous human remains of sacrificial rituals dating back to the Lusatian culture 2,500 years ago. This is a groundbreaking discovery - the first of its kind in Poland.

Jewish treasure from the beginning of the Nazi invasion of Poland found in Lodz

During the renovation of an old tenement house in Lodz, Poland, a collection of more than 400 valuable objects of Jewish families hidden in fear of the Nazi occupation was discovered. The collection includes kiddush cups, Hanukkah cups, menorahs, sacred artifacts and fragments of the Talmud, as well as items of daily and household furnishings, including silver-plated crockery, glass perfume bottles and clothing. Everything was wrapped in Polish, Yiddish and German newspapers from October 1939.

Bronze Age treasure stolen twice over

In the Polish village of Kalisce near Biały Bór in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, two treasures from the Late Bronze Age were discovered "lying" on top of each other. They are one of the largest and most varied collections not only in Pomerania, they are also unique in Poland. Unfortunately, the context of the deposition of the finds was irretrievably destroyed during their double illegal retrieval.

13.5.2019 24 jewels and 2776 gold and silver coins

A real treasure was discovered in the cellar of a house in the former Jewish ghetto in Keszthely. It contained 24 jewels and 2,776 rare gold and silver coins. The original owners of this wealth are believed to have died in a concentration camp.

Unprecedented find of 6,500 years of gold rings in a Neolithic grave

Near the city of Oradea in western Romania, a unique set has been discovered that is unparalleled in Europe. During the construction of a new A3 motorway link, workers came across the grave of a Copper Age woman. It contained two gold beads, 800 bone beads, a spiral copper bracelet and above all 169 gold rings.

"Amber elites" in ancient Kaliningrad change the view of historians

Excavations of a necropolis on the Sambian Peninsula in Russia have revealed rich graves of high-ranking elites. In addition to weapons, jewellery and personal effects, items such as a Roman board game were found. The site has emerged as an important trading centre, benefiting from its interconnectedness with the whole of Europe at the time...

41,500-year-old pendant found in Poland, the oldest of its kind on the continent

The artefact from the Polish cave Stajnia was found together with other objects in 2010, but only recently a study investigating its age was published. Radiocarbon dating has placed the pendant at 41,500 years ago, which is at least 1,500 years older than previous evidence of the production of similar artefacts by the earliest members of Homo sapiens in Europe. The object, decorated with puncture curves and smoothing, has thus "become" the oldest known decorated mammoth pendant in Eurasia.

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