Treasures of ancient (10 photos) Bashny.Net

Perhaps as a child every dreamed of finding buried treasure ... And some even dug garden sites anywhere in the country ... In fact, to find the treasure and everyone can, but luck units ... More often buried or buried under the cultural layer of the jewelry are completely random, and with those who are they, and not specifically looking for ... But the discovery of even a small treasure - it is always an event in the world of archeology, not to mention those treasures whose value can not even be measured in monetary terms ....





December 8, 1949 three brothers - Pavel, Petko and Michail Deykovi (Deikovi) - worked at the factory tiles «Merul» near the town Panagiristom (Panagyurishte) in Bulgaria. Taking out of the clay of the earth layer by layer, they suddenly came upon an unusual shiny objects. What they saw was a real treasure - a pot, amphora and seven craters packed 6164 pounds of pure gold ... All the objects are richly decorated with scenes of myths ... The find was dated 4 - 3 century BC



One of the largest and most valuable finds were made in Poland ... Archaeologists have discovered a treasure during excavations in 1985 in Sroda Slaskie (Środa Śląska). Much of the treasure is now in the museum. Among the found treasure was gold crown, which probably belonged to Blanche of Valois, wife of Emperor Charles IV, two gold pendant of the 12th century, two gold pendant of the 13th century, medieval gold disc adorned with precious stones, three rings, 39 gold coins, and 2924 silver coins ...



The treasure, called "Preslav" was found in the autumn of 1978 in a vineyard in Castanet (Castana), 3 km north-west of the second Bulgarian capital - Veliki Preslav. The excavations were found 170 gold, silver and bronze objects including 15 silver Byzantine coins belonging to Constantine VII, Roman II (945 and 959) and other articles referring to the 3-7 centuries AD. The richness of the treasure was not so much the quantity of gold and silver found much in diversity - products were richly decorated with precious stones, pearls, black, grain, embossing, enamel and filigree ...



The list of the treasures would not be complete if it did not mention the treasure of Tutankhamun. It was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which was under the huts of workers ... This explains why this treasure is preserved, and the tomb has not been looted, like many other Egyptian burial ... The most famous part of the treasure - a "mask of Tutankhamen." But apart from her in the tomb was an ornate inner coffin made of solid gold of high grade, and the throne, and other smaller items ...



Another treasure of Bulgaria - a treasure "Pereshchepina" - important collection of objects and Byzantine period, the Sasanian Empire. The hoard was discovered in 1912 in the village of Malaya Pereshchepina B13 km from Poltava in Ukraine shepherd boy who literally stumbled over a golden vessel and fell into the grave Kuvrat, founder of Great Bulgaria and father of Asparuh, the founder of the First Bulgarian Empire ... The treasure was discovered more than 800 items among which silver vessels 19 and 16 gold vessels. In addition, the well-preserved iron sword in a sheath decorated with gold and precious stones on the handle ...



Treasures, known as "Tilly Tepe" were found in northern Afghanistan near Sheberghan in 1979 by Soviet archaeologists headed by Victor Sarianidi. Afghan hoard was a meeting of about 20 000 gold ornaments that were found in the graves of five women and one man ... The hoard was dated to the 1st century BC. Among the coins were found, necklaces set with gems, belts, medallions, and crowns made of gold, turquoise and lapis - lazuli ...



Treasure "Nagisentmiklos" - a valuable collection of twenty-three gold vessels of the 10th century - was found in 1791 in Transylvania in Romania ...



The Greek treasure "Petroasel» (Pietroasele), discovered in Romania in 1937 and dating from the 4th century included about twenty-two gold objects ... Of these, only twelve have been preserved in the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest ... Among the jewels - round sacrificial dish with images of Greek deities ...



Treasure Gordon, excavated in the town Cyane-sur-Loire in France in 1845, dates back to 5-6 centuries ... Among the objects - a golden cup, rectangular metal circle and about 100 gold coins era of domination of the Byzantine Emperor Leo I (457-474), and Justina I (518-527) ...



The last major find was discovered on the wreck off the coast of Indonesia ... The treasure is dated to the 10th century AD ... Under the water were found 14,000 pearls, 4,000 rubies, 400 dark red sapphires, and more than 2,200 garnets ... In addition to jewelry, hunters Treasure found a tiny jar of perfume of burnt clay times of the Egyptian Fatimid dynasty, as well as dishes adorned with dragons and parrots, products from bone farfra, teapots decorated with lotus flowers ... The treasure was valued at several million dollars, 50 percent of whom moved to the Government of Indonesia ... < br />


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