€9m Gold Hoard Found Behind Belgian Cellar Walls

Some builders were fixing pipes in a building in Belgium when they found something amazing — gold bars and coins hidden inside the cellar walls.

The gold is worth about nine million euros, which is a huge amount of money.

One of the workers was an 18-year-old student named Kobe who was working during his summer holiday.

He first thought the shiny objects were just one-euro coins, but then he saw a gold nugget and realised they had found a real treasure.

The workers called the police right away, because keeping that much gold would be stealing.

The police took the gold and put it in a safe place.

The building belongs to a charity that helps people in the town of Dendermonde.

Now the big question is who gets to keep the treasure: the original owner, the workers, or the charity.

In Belgium, the true owner has five years to come forward and claim it.

If nobody does, the treasure can be split between the people who found it and the owner of the property — unless the gold turns out to be connected to crime.