Celengan Berisi Penuh Koin Berusia 2.000 Tahun Ditemukan di Reruntuhan Kuil Budha Kuno

"Savings Jar Full of Coins Dating Back 2,000 Years Found in Ancient Buddha Temple Ruins"

Dream - A piggy bank containing coins that are 2,000 years old was found in an ancient Buddhist temple in Pakistan. However, researchers suspect that the coins did not originate from the Buddhist temple, but from much older ruins.

Celengan Berisi Penuh Koin Berusia 2.000 Tahun Ditemukan di Reruntuhan Kuil Budha Kuno

The following is the translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any html tags: "Archaeologists in Pakistan have discovered a pile of extremely rare copper coins. The coins, which are over 2,000 years old, were found in the ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple."

The following is the translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any HTML tags: "The Buddha temple was built on an even older site called Mohenjo-Daro. The temple - known as a stupa - is believed to date back to the time of the Kushan Empire."

"Kingdom of Buddha"

The translation of the given 'Bahasa' text to 'English' while preserving any html tags is as follows: "The Empire, which the majority of its people adheres to the Buddhist religion, ruled from the second century BC to the third century AD. The Kushan Empire conquered the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom established in Central Asia by Alexander the Great."

This temple is located among the ruins in Mohenjo-Daro, which is now in the southeastern region of Pakistan. The site has existed since 2600 BC and originated from the ancient Indus Valley or Harappa civilization - one of the oldest civilizations in the world.

"This stupa was built on the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro, which were left abandoned after collapsing around 1,600 years later," said archaeologist and tour guide Sheikh Javed Ali Sindhi to Live Science."

"Menyatu Jadi Gumpalan Koin" translates to "Merge into a Coin Lump" in English.

The newly discovered coins are green in color because the copper has undergone corrosion when exposed to air. Corrosion over centuries has also fused the coins into a single lump weighing about 5.5 kilograms. However, some coins have been found separately. The fused stack may consist of 1,000 to 1,500 coins, said Sindhi.

Some coins that are separated from the cluster of carved figure images are standing. This figure is possibly a Kushan king. Those coins are the first artifacts excavated from the ruins of the stupa since 1931.

Initially, British archaeologist Ernest MacKay discovered more than 1,000 copper coins there, said Sindhi. Other coins were also found around the stupa in the 1920s. Mohenjo-Daro, which means 'mound of the dead' in the local language, was abandoned around 1800 BC. The site disappeared along with other major cities in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization.

"The Collapse of the Ancient Buddhist Kingdom"

The Stupa in Mohenjo-Daro was abandoned around 500 AD, possibly after being damaged by an earthquake or due to the decline of Buddhism in the region. At that time, the Kushan Empire had split into several independent kingdoms. The Kushan Empire was first ruled by the Sassanians from Persia and then by conquerors from the north who may have been related to the Huns.

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