Laborers unearth 4,000-year-old crown while making bricks

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When laborers were hired to extract clay from India's Chandayan village for brick-building, they didn't expect to uncover a skull, with a crown still attached.

After the laborers found the crown in August, the Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI) began an excavation at the site in December.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.