A 2,400-year-old urn containing cremated human remains and a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman silver coin were found by a man looking for mushrooms in a Polish forest. According to the media reports, while picking mushrooms in a forest with his spouse in Mazovia, central Poland, Jacek Krynicki noticed something strange sticking out of a pile of sand.According to Mazovia’s regional heritage conservation authority, the artifact was discovered to be an ancient funerary urn from approximately the fourth century BCE on Friday. The urn, which still held cremated remains, was found with pieces of other ceramics, such as a small bowl that served as a lid and a portion of a large bell-shaped vessel that would have covered the grave. The finding was connected by archeologists to the Cloche Grave culture, an Iron Age society in modern-day Poland renowned for its unique funeral customs.
