Four bags of money hidden around 1640 and worth "much more than a craftsman could earn in a year" have been found inside a statue at a Gothic church in Germany.

Four bags filled with coins were found at St Andreas Church in Eisleben, a town in Germany famed for being ... Gold coins, ducats, silver coins and hundreds of pennies had been stowed in a cavity ...

Restorers at a famous Gothic church in Germany have discovered a "huge fortune" that was hidden in the leg of a statue nearly 400 years ago. The treasure — four bags of coins from the 1600s ...