FF 535
Famous findBuried between the mid-1400s and the 1600s, probably in the 1500s · found 1960
The Ing'ombe Ilede Burials: workmen digging a water tank above the Zambezi found traders buried with gold, copper and glass
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.