Farmer Unearthed 2,500-Year-Old Gold Bracelets in Poland

News June 23, 2015

(PAP © 2015 / Darek Delmanowicz)
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(PAP © 2015 / Darek Delmanowicz)

KROSNO, POLAND—A farmer in southeastern Poland unearthed three gold bracelets tied with golden wire that are thought to date to between 1600 and 400 B.C. “We will study the place of discovery because we want to determine whether it was a discovery of a treasure, or perhaps remains of a burial ground,” Jan Gancarski, director of the Subcarpathian Museum in Krosno, told Science & Scholarship in Poland. Gancarski thinks that “the objects probably originated from behind the Carpathians. At the time, the Carpathian foothills were inhabited by people who came here from behind the Carpathians.” 

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