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The Legendary Nibelung Treasure
The Legendary Nibelung Treasure
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, August 25, 2014 | 4:55 PM
On February 2014, an amateur metal detectorist has discovered a trove a gold and silver dating back to late Roman times in a forest near Ruelzheim in the western German state of Rhineland Palatinate. The silver bowls, brooches and other jewellery from ceremonial robes, and small statues that adorned a grand chair - valued in total at about a million euros (£825,000) - seem to have been buried in