Memorials - Monuments - Museums - Parks - Statues
Apr. 17 According to the opinion of experts - - of the German National Museum in Nuremberg the so-called Nuremberg Gold Helmet is about 3500 years old. Some time ago it was found by the mason Michael Doerner when he was stubbing trunks of trees in the vicinity of the small Frankonian Village, Etzeldorf. Now this precious piece was allowed to be photographed by for the first time. The Gold Helmet - probably a means of worship - is embossed of gold of 24 carats and has a weight of about 300 grams. Miss Raum, assistant of the pre-historian of the German National Museum Dr. Georg Raschke, is composing the many parts of the Gold Helmet'. The precious piece is to get its original shape on a high felt-hat (right)
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