India: Treasure worth Rs 750 billion found from a temple

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Years-old treasure has been found from a temple in Indian state Kerala.

04 July,2011 02:53 pm

A treasure trove, estimated to be worth Rs 750 billion has been recently recovered from an underground chamber that had remained unopened for nearly 140 years in a 16th century temple in India’s southern Kerala state.According to Indian media, gold and silver bullion including 17kg (37lbs) of coins from the Napoleonic and East India Company’s era, precious stones and diamond and emerald-studded jewellery form part of the cache discovered from the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Hindu temple in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.According to local folklore generations of wealthy Travancore maharajas, who built the temple more than 400 years ago, had hidden immense riches within six of its thick underground stone vaults, three of which had not been opened since 1872.