{"id":1002299,"date":"2026-08-15T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002299\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T11:55:26","slug":"construction-workers-find-gold-stash-estimated-to-be-worth-10-million-during-renovations-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1002299\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction workers find gold stash estimated to be worth $10 million during renovations in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction workers in Belgium stumbled upon a stash of gold believed to be worth more than $10 million during renovation work on a building.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were &#8220;immediately&#8221; contacted by the workers after they discovered &#8220;a large quantity of gold&#8221; while working on a building in the east Flemish town of Dendermonde. The local police department posted a picture on its Facebook page of around 50 gold bars and piles of gold coins.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian news outlets reported that bars and coins worth an estimated nine million euros ($10.4 million) were found bricked into the cellar walls during the renovation of a house belonging to a local charity, CAW East-Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/772137757-830596346805416-2051936017905104373-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"772137757-830596346805416-2051936017905104373-n.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Local police in Dendermonde, Belgium posted a picture of approximately 50 gold bars found by construction workers during renovations on a building.<\/p>\n<p>                Lokale Politie Dendermonde\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>One worker interviewed by Belgian news outlet VRT said the crew&#8217;s &#8220;first reaction was actually disbelief, amazement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stumbled across it while carrying out groundwork to lay a pipe for the sewerage system,&#8221; said the man identified only as Kobe. &#8220;We certainly hadn&#8217;t expected to find gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said the gold was &#8220;inventoried and secured as quickly as possible in a high-security vault belonging to the federal government services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/774362896-1498080409030033-6595733772667220709-n.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"774362896-1498080409030033-6595733772667220709-n.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Belgian police said the construction workers contacted them immediately after finding the golden haul.<\/p>\n<p>                Lokale Politie Dendermonde\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apparently, several treasure hunters would like to pay another visit to the site,&#8221; read a Facebook post by the police department &#8212; which changed its profile picture to a gold coin in light of the find.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A golden piece of advice: it is truly pointless,&#8221; they said &#8212; cautioning the curious to stay away from the fenced-off construction site.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear who was considered the legal owner of the trove &#8212; and if anyone would get to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us hope that this treasure ends up in the right hands,&#8221; said the police post.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n              Go deeper with The Free Press\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction workers in Belgium stumbled upon a stash of gold believed to be worth more than $10 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1002300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[111,50,103],"class_list":["post-1002299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-belgium","tag-news","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117099400942175282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1002300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}