暑期打工挖下水道，比利时18岁学生挖到价值900万欧元金库，已上交官方

一名比利时学生Kobe（科比）暑期在一啤酒厂建筑工地打工，挖下水道时发现了一个隐藏的黄金库，估价900万欧元。

For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, "money down the drain" has taken on a whole new meaning: excavating the trenches for a sewage system, he stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9 million.

18岁的科比接受采访时说：“起初我以为是1欧元的硬币，然后又看到了一块金条。挖着挖着发现，比我们想象的要多一点，是个金库。”

"We suddenly saw something lying there," 18-year-old Kobe told the Belgian news network VTM. "At first I thought it was €1 coins. So we started digging them up. Then we saw a gold bar. It turned out to be a bit more than we thought." The student, who has not been further identified, was working with colleagues on the site of a former brewery on Van Langenhovestraat in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about 30km northwest of Brussels, when they made the discovery on Tuesday.

据报道，这批宝藏包括金币、金块和有编号的金条。它们全都被装在一个袋子里，藏在别墅地窖里。这栋别墅是19世纪末该啤酒厂老板建的。

The hoard, which includes gold coins, nuggets and numbered bullion bars, was stashed in a bag in a bricked-in cellar wall beneath the grand villa originally built for the brewery's owner, Theophilus Van Assche, in the late 19th century.

现场找到的金币

这个啤酒厂属于范·阿斯齐家族，该地的酿造始于1899年，于1970年停止。目前，这处房产正由社会福利组织进行全面翻新，以打造新的办公空间和住房。

Brewing on the site began in 1899 and ceased in 1970, and the listed property is being completely renovated by the social welfare organisation CAW Oost-Vlaanderen to create new offices and housing.

现场找到的金条

科比和他的同事们在发现这么多金子后立即通知了官方。目前，金库已被转移到布鲁塞尔的一个安全设施内，等待详细的官方调查，以确定其合法所有权。

Kobe and his colleagues called the police and notified CAW as soon as they came across the gold hoard. The treasure has since been transferred to a secure facility in Brussels pending a detailed official investigation to establish its legal ownership.

现场找到的金子

科比表示，他和同事们当时就明白，对于如此重大的发现，必须上交。“如果只是几枚硬币，也许就不会了。”他说，“不过最后说不定我们能拿点发现者奖励什么的。”

For his part, Kobe said he and his colleagues had understood straight away that they had to hand over such a big find. "If it had been a few coins, maybe not," he said. "But maybe we'll get some kind of finder's reward eventually."

来源：卫报 红星新闻

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