1 published discovery from Belarus — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Belarus, a famous historical find. It is filed under hoards. It is the Litva Hoard, Belarus, buried around 1432.
The law: In Belarus, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
In the early 1990s workers in a field near Litva, west of Minsk in Belarus, found a hoard of thousands of Prague groschen and a gilded silver belt. Most of it was sold off before scholars heard of it; after a court case in 2006 the belt went to the National Historical Museum.
