The 4,000-year-old treasure “magi’s grave goods” unearthed near the famous Stonehenge monument in England in the 19th century may be many times more valuable than imagined, after a discovery that could turn everything upside down. chief.
According to Live Science, a recent examination of the famous treasure from the burial mound named Upton Lowell and displayed at the Witlshire Museum in Devizes (UK) discovered traces of gold on the surface of the items.
Treasure “magi’s grave goods” on display at Witlshire Museum – Photo: Antiquity
The theory that the strange stone objects were the ritual tools of a shaman was quickly shaken. He could have been someone more important to history than that – a goldsmith, for example.
Given the 4,000-year age of the tomb where the mysterious “shaman” was and the strange trove of burial goods unearthed, the fact that he may have been a goldsmith would be a major historical milestone, showing his skill Gold processing may have developed earlier and at a higher level than imagined.
The proof of that would be the strangeness of the stone tools that archaeologists had to admit did not know what they were, so two centuries ago they thought they must be mysterious tools used in rituals. of a magician.
Another theory is that the owner of the strange burial items may have been an individual representing many different roles during the origins of the Bronze Age.
The golden find – both literal and figurative – from this museum’s dormant treasure was just published in the scientific journal Antiquity; with a conclusion that is still shrouded in mystery: “Tomb furniture is not just an expression of a person’s identity.”
