TPO – A group of Israeli teenagers recently received a clay jar containing more than 400 gold coins dating back more than 1,100 years.

Reuters news agency quoted the Israel Antiquities Authority as saying that the above group of teenagers dug up the ancient vase when volunteering to participate in an excavation in central Israel on August 18. This excavation area is part of a project to build a new neighborhood.

“The person who buried this treasure 1,100 years ago must have hoped to get these gold coins back. This person even fixed the vase with nails so it wouldn’t move. We have not been able to determine the reason why the treasure could not return to its owner,” said excavation head Liat Nadav-Ziv.

According to archaeologists, the area where the ancient vase was found used to be a construction workshop at the time the treasure was buried. Currently, the identity of the owner of this treasure is still a mystery.

A group of Israeli teenagers recently discovered a clay jar containing treasure with more than 400 gold coins dating back more than 1,100 years ago.

Oz Cohen, one of the people who found the treasure, shared: “It’s amazing! While digging the ground, I suddenly saw some objects that looked very much like thin leaves. Looking closely, I discovered that they were gold coins. I was really excited to find such an ancient and special treasure like this!”

In total, volunteers found 425 24-carat gold coins dating from the late 9th century Abbasid Caliphate (3rd Arab Islamic dynasty). According to Mr. Robert Kool, a coin research expert at the Antiquities Authority, this amount of gold was worth a “fortune” at that time.

“With such a large amount of money, a person could buy a luxury house in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in Fustat, the famous rich and prosperous capital of Egypt at that time,” Mr. Kool said. .

Volunteers found 425 24-carat gold coins dating back to the late 9th century Abbasid Caliphate (3rd Arab Muslim dynasty).

This is said to be one of the largest treasure troves of ancient coins ever discovered in Israel.

In 2015, a group of amateur divers also found many gold coins dating back to the Fatimid period, between the 10th and 11th centuries, off the coast of an ancient port city named Caesarea.