Chinese archaeologists have found a 1,000-year-old steel case in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. After more than one hundred days of investigation, archaeologists say they are ready to unwrap the decorative pagoda top -- known as a finial -- which was inside the case. Mysterious Buddhist relics are believed to be hidden inside the pagoda top.

Mysterious Buddhist relics are believed to be hidden inside the pagoda top.

When the steel case was discovered in early August in Nanjing, a pagoda finial wrapped in silk emerged, after archaeologists removed two steel panels of the cube-shaped case, which is 1.34 meters high and weighs 409 kilograms.