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Metal Detecting Finds in Belize

1 published discovery in the Jewellery category from Belize — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Jewellery from Belize

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FF 536

Famous findBuried about AD 600 to 650 · found 1968

The Altun Ha Jade Head: a villager's jade led archaeologists to a Maya king buried with the sun god on his wrist

Belize · Jewellery

In 1968 the Royal Ontario Museum team excavating the Maya city of Altun Ha in Belize opened the earliest of seven royal tombs in a temple. On the dead ruler's right wrist lay a carved jade head of the sun god weighing 4.42 kg, now Belize's national symbol.