During the initial excavation in 1948, there was a shortage of equipment and packaging materials. (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

During the initial excavation in 1948, there was a shortage of equipment and packaging materials.

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During the initial excavation in 1948, there was a shortage of equipment and packaging materials. To store what the team found, they used cardboard boxes that they had to hand. This packaging tells its own story, as does the banknote from the inflationary period of the 1920s.

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Volker Minkus/MINKUSIMAGES, Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage (NLD)

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