The body of a 1,300-year-old man has been discovered inside a former Intel chip production plant in Gerguyy.
The discovery took place in excavation paintings that revealed 50 plans of buildings belonging to a settlement between 3,500 and 4,500 years old at the site, near the city of Magdeburg.
“The dead man was 1. 65 meters long [five feet, five inches] and tall for the time,” Susanne Friederich, an archaeologist and task manager at Halle’s State Office for Archaeology and Monument Preservation, told local newspaper Tag24.
“The man was carrying a knife in his right thigh. The steel tip of a sword sheath, the buckle of a belt and the remains of a bronze brooch holding the man’s garment in combination were also preserved,” he said.
The weapons included in the tomb suggest that the man is probably a warrior.
The framework is believed to have originated in the so-called migration era, also known as the Middle Ages, which lasted from 500 to 1000 AD. This era marked the movement of Germanic tribes throughout Europe to escape the advance of the Huns from Central Asia. .
The houses of the village are also original. The special thing is the elongated oval of the perimeter walls,” says Friedrich.
Houses of this type have been discovered in northern Germany and Scandinavia, but it is rare to locate them as far south as Magdeburg.
Most houses are around 33 feet long and thirteen feet wide, one giant construction measuring 49 to 16 feet. The site also includes a pit house, a construction constructed from an underground well with a surface roof that would likely have been used at most for artisanal purposes.
Some of them are believed to date back to the Bronze Age, which lasted from 2500 to 800 BC.
Archaeologists expect to find more tombs and lines of the agreement as excavations continue at the site. ” By the end of the year, the number of houses can reach one hundred to two hundred in a domain of about three hundred hectares. ” he said. Friedrich.
However, the team does not have much time to complete its excavations due to Intel’s factory development schedule. The company plans to start construction of its two new semiconductor plants in 2024, giving archaeologists until the end of the year to complete their investigations.
“In that case, nothing will stand in the way of Intel’s standards,” Friedrich said.