Workers in Belgium found a treasure of gold worth 9 million euros in the wall of a house.

Workers rebuilding an old house in Belgium have found treasure in the basement wall underneath - gold bars and coins that could be worth up to nine million euros.

Builders found treasure in the basement wall under the house while laying a route for sewer pipes.

“At first I thought they were 1 euro coins. But then I saw a gold bar nearby. And then we realized we had found something bigger,” a crew member, an 18-year-old student named Kobe, told Belgian broadcaster VRT.

The builders called the police. Keeping the treasure for yourself, as they explain, would be unthinkable.

“There are so many coins and bars - it would be almost impossible,” foreman Mario told VRT. “And that would just be theft.”

“Nine million euros—you can’t hide that much,” Kobe agreed.

All the bars, as seen in photographs released by police, are marked, but it is not known when they and the coins were made. There is also no information about when and how they were walled up in the wall.

According to the Belgian press, the house in the district of Dendermonde in northern Belgium, where the treasure was found, belonged to a brewer entrepreneur since the end of the 19th century, and now workers are completely rebuilding it for the needs of the organization that bought it, CAW Oost-Vlaanderen, which deals with social assistance in Dendermonde.

CAW Oost-Vlaanderen director Geert Hillert told reporters that he was very pleased with this amazing find and hopes that his charity will eventually receive the funds and use them to help people.

However, as the Belgian press notes, not everything is so simple.

Firstly, journalists write, the treasure should be divided in half by the workers who found it and the organization that owns the house.

Secondly, according to Belgian law, you have to wait five years for the rightful owner of the treasure to show up.

And thirdly, none of them will get the treasure if it turns out that the hidden treasures were obtained by criminal means.

So far, local police have launched an investigation and urged people not to move to the “golden” house, saying that it had already been turned upside down, and the treasure had been transported to a safe place.

At the same time, the police expressed hope that the treasure “will find the right place” and it will help change people’s lives for the better.