Girl Finds Strange Coin With Metal Detector — Expert Turns Pale When He Sees It

Confirming her call

Dr. Bakker looked through the photographs and cross-referenced her GPS coordinates with something on his own phone. He told the lead officer that the location fell within a protected heritage zone flagged by regional authorities two years earlier.

Unauthorized excavation in that zone was a criminal offense. What Maya had documented was large-scale and deliberate.