Puri: The treasure hunt at the Emar Mutt in front of the Shree Jagannath Temple in Puri resumed again on Friday in the presence of local administrative officials and mutt authorities.
Earlier on September 19, 2021, teams of archeologists armed with metal detectors had identified three sites in the mutt that may be housing more treasure as found during two earlier discoveries.
In 2011, the police had found 522 silver ingots weighing 18 tonnes inside the Mutt worth about Rs 90 crore. Similarly, 45 more silver ingots weighing about 35 kg each were found inside the Mutt in April 2021.
Apart from silver ingots, a silver tree and silver flowers, about 16 antique swords, and a bronze cow sculpture were also recovered from the Mutt. The treasures recovered earlier from the mutt are now kept in the state treasury in Puri.
The mutt’s hidden treasury came to the limelight in 2011 when two masons were caught by Dhenkanal Police while they were trying to dispose of two silver ingots weighing over 30 kg each. During the interrogation, they confessed to stealing the valuables from Emar Mutt.
