Excavation Expands Around Bronze Age Site Of Seddin Burial Mound

SEDDIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 14: Pieces of ceramics discovered at the excavation site of a Nordic Bronze Age settlement lie in a box at the site on October 14, 2024 near Seddin, Germany. The site is an expansion of the discovery last year of the remains of a grand hall and now includes evidence of other buildings nearby. The grand hall, thought by archaeologists to be the seat of a local king, measured 10 meters by 31 meters and was an estimated seven meters tall, making it among the biggest Nordic Bronze Age buildings ever discovered. Immo Heske, an archaeologist from the University of Goettingen who is leading the dig, says eight buildings are confirmed to have stood at the site and thinks there may have been a total of 20 or more. The settlement, estimated to have existed from about 920 to 800 B.C., was likely a hub for trading and a center of power along a route between Denmark and Slavic settlements in Saxony. The site lies close to the "King's Grave of Seddin," a funerary mound dating from the same period and discovered in 1899. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)