Archaeologists have discovered a millennia-old burial site with the remains of several people near Wustermark in the Havelland district.
According to previous knowledge, people were buried in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age around 2200 to 1800 BC, as the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeological State Museum (BLDAM) announced on Tuesday.
The experts made the very rare find a few weeks ago. Why the people were buried together and what they died of is not yet known.
The extraordinary find will be recovered in a block to be transported away undamaged, it said. For this purpose, among other things, a large steel plate is pushed under the tomb in order to then salvage it.
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The entire block, whose weight is estimated at three to four tons, is to be examined further there after it has been transported by truck to the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Wünsdorf.
