1 published discovery from Kenya — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Kenya, a famous historical find. It is filed under coins. It is the Manda Island Ming coin, cast in the Yongle reign, about 1408 to 1424.
The law: In Kenya, 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.
Famous findCast in the Yongle reign, about 1408 to 1424 · found 2012
In December 2012, on the first day of excavation on Manda Island off the coast of Kenya, a Field Museum team found a Chinese coin of the Yongle Emperor. It shows that trade linked Ming China and the Swahili coast in the early 1400s.
