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In March 2017, gold coins, jewelry and weapons from the beginning of the 17th century - the end of the Ming dynasty - were found in China. Jewelry found at the bottom of a specially drained river for archaeologists in Sichuan province.
In the area where the treasure was discovered, in 1646, the comrades-in-arms of the peasant uprising leader Zhang Xianzhong were defeated by the troops of the Ming dynasty. Then the rebels tried to transport the treasury to the south. There is a version that during the battle about a thousand boats with coins were flooded.
According to a professor at the Institute of Archeology and Museology of Peking University, the objects found are of tremendous value, because they can be used to explore the political, economic, and military aspects of the Ming dynasty.
It is believed that the uprising of Zhang Xianzhong in the 1630s and 1640s was one of the reasons for the fall of the Ming dynasty, which ruled China since 1368. Later, Zhang Xianzhong’s troops controlled Sichuan Province for several years.