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Gold and precious gems unearthed in a 5th-century grave in Bohemia – Livescience.com

Other skeletons nearby had been looted, but the woman’s grave was untouched.

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About 1,600 years ago, a woman in eastern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) was buried with a treasure trove of precious objects, including a headdress and four silver
buckles that were inlaid with gold
and studded with semiprecious stones.
Archaeologists with the East Bohemian Museum in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, found the fifth-century burial in 2019, and they recently described their initial findings in a statement
. One exceptional find was the headdress, decorated with golden discs. Glass…

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