Archaeologists found millennia-old treasures in the world-famous Baradla cave – photos

The cave is part of the famous stalactite cave of Aggtelek where archaeologists of ELTE University found unique treasures dating back to the early Bronze Age, late Neolithic. 

Suddenly, the metal detector sounded

The cave is going to help the healing process of patients suffering from respiratory diseases in the future. Before that, however, an archaeological examination had to be done during which the treasures were found – index.hu reported.

The Baradla stalactite cave is one of the most famous in Hungary and has been scientifically searched for at least 150 years. Furthermore,

marauders looted it several times in the 18th century.

Therefore, chances are slight to find anything valuable – said Dr Gábor Szabó, the archaeologist leading the excavations.

Still, archaeologists found unexpectedly a

5,000-year-old collection from the late Neolithic period

and an approximately 3,200-year-old one from the Bronze Age. The latter, a 59-item bronze finding, was discovered in quite a mysterious place, hidden under rocks put on each other as if they were parts of a house. According to Szabó, nobody ever finds anything in such sites; however, this time, his colleagues were lucky. He added that in the 1920s, some golden artefacts emerged from Baradla, and even they have already found golden hair-clips and valuable spearheads during their metal detector project that started four years ago.

Credits go to an amateur metal detector

Fortunately, prehistoric layers in the cave were covered by concrete and a 20-30 cm thick limestone layer, so they were protected both from looters and tourists. Previously, no metal detectors signed near the spot where the hidden treasures were found, but this time an amateur colleague, Lajos Sándor was lucky.