1 published discovery from Zambia — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from Zambia, a famous historical find. It is filed under jewellery. It is the Ing'ombe Ilede graves, Zambia, buried between the mid-1400s and the 1600s, probably in the 1500s.
The law: In Zambia, 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 1960 a construction crew digging a water tank on a hill above the Zambezi in southern Zambia broke into a cemetery. The richest graves held gold, copper and imported glass beads, bangles, copper cross ingots and wire-drawing tools, the belongings of long-distance traders.
