Priceless antiques sold for pennies.

From Ananova:

Two Chinese men who found a horde of priceless antiques in an ancient tomb did not realise their value and sold them for pennies.

One of the artworks was a pottery figure of a woman worth nearly £100,000 which they sold for the equivalent of 28p.

Feng and Zheng of Guying town, Henan province, say they found the tomb while hunting hares in a field near their homes.

"We saw a 50cm diameter opening in the field. Curiosity drove us to dig deep," Feng told the Zhengzhou Evening Post.

They dug out more than 20 antiques from the tomb, and sold them to a collector for just over £1,000 altogether.

"We don't know the value of these things. The collector said the pottery meant nothing, so we virtually gave it away," added Feng.

The pair were shocked to later discover that the tomb they had found dated back to the 1,000-year-old Sui Tang Dynasty.