Eberswalde Hoard

[1] The largest prehistoric assembly of gold objects ever found in Germany, it is considered to be one of the most important finds from the Central European Bronze Age.

[3] Today, it is in Russia, as part of the group of artifacts and works of art looted from Germany at the end of the Second World War.

The factory supervisor alerted Carl Schuchhardt, the director of the Prehistoric Department of the Royal Museums at Berlin, who acceded the hoard to that collection.

The hoard used to be thought to represent the stores of a merchant.,[citation needed] but more recent research suggests that it was of religious significance.

[5] After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the Eberswalde Hoard disappeared from the Berlin museum, along with the so-called "Treasure of Priam".