Restorers have discovered a cache with wealth and documents over 370 years of age at the Tower of the Cathedral at the Legery.
During the restoration of the Gothic Cathedral of the Saints Peter and Paul in Poland City of Lynnitsa, archaeologists found the time capsule, which historians have called the oldest in the world. TVP reported it.
It is known that the documents and coins are preserved in the container, the oldest of which the dates from 1650.
Among the treasures were four parchment documents, five gold, 26 silver and four copper coins. Most important is the Dutaca of 1621 and the Thaler of the 1607, released by Duke George Rudolf Lleznitsky.
The found indicated that the capsule had been replenished several times – in 1775 and 1823, new coins and documents were added to it, in particular, the times of Friedrich II of Prussian and Polish king of August III.
According to the director of the Legery Museum, Marcin Makukh, this capsule is older than all previously known in the world, including American (1761) and Polish (1716, 1726).
The treasures will be displayed at the first time on September 19 at a special Cathedral exhibition.
Earlier it was reported that thanks to the fire in Israel, a lost Bible was discovered.
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