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Top image: The 1,000-year-old Middle Eastern gold earring was found in in Denmark. Source:

A gold earring dug up in a field.

West Jutland, Denmark. about 1,000 years old. Last 1,000 years. Debated. Free

Debated. A gold earring was dug up, but experts are not sure where it was made.

A metal detectorist found it in a field in West Jutland, Denmark. It is about 1,000 years old. It is built on a crescent-shaped gold plate, with enamel, gold thread, and small gold balls. The plate shows two birds beside a tree. A museum expert said it came from Byzantium or Egypt, and that it was likely a gift to a Viking chief. Only 12 similar earrings have been found. No known Viking sites lie near this field.

Experts are still puzzled about how the earring reached West Jutland.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/gold-earring-0016165