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Metal Detecting Finds in Sudan

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

Jewellery from Sudan

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Famous findLate 1st century BC or early 1st century AD · found 1834

Ferlini's Meroë Treasure: the gold a treasure hunter found by wrecking a pyramid

Sudan · JewelleryRef 229

In 1834 the Italian treasure hunter Giuseppe Ferlini had the top of a royal pyramid at Meroë in Sudan torn down, and claimed to have found a hoard of a Kushite queen's gold jewellery inside. Experts at first called it a fake; it is now in Berlin and Munich.