1 published discovery from Tanzania — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Tanzania, a famous historical find. It is filed under hoards. It is the Mtambwe Hoard, 11th century AD, buried in or after 1066.
The law: In Tanzania, 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 December 1984 coins picked up by local people on Mtambwe Mkuu, an islet off Pemba in Tanzania, led archaeologists to a hoard under a house floor. It held about 650 silver coins struck in East Africa and eight gold dinars from the Fatimid world, hidden after 1066.
