Archaeologists uncover a second 10th-century stone building at Otto the Great’s lost royal palace in Helfta

Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt found a second stone building next to the palace of a lost royal residence. The site is the Ottonian palatinate of Helfta, on a hill called Kleine Klaus near Lutherstadt Eisleben. Digs there ran from 2020 to 2023 and started up again on August 31, 2026. They’ll wrap up on October 24, […]

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