Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have actually uncovered a clay pot loaded with gold, silver and gemstone-encrusted fashion jewelry that might have been buried by an Islamic pilgrim en path to Mecca more than a millennium back.

The group nicknamed the stockpile the “Diriyah Treasure” after the historical site where it was found. Found on the borders of Riyadh, Diriyah was an essential station on the Hajj path for Islamic pilgrims in between Basra, Iraq, and Mecca, Saudi Arabia. According to archaeologists with the Saudi Heritage Commission who have actually been excavating Diriyah for 6 years, radiocarbon analysis of natural remains puts the primary settlement in the duration of 743 to 753.