Ancient Grave in Heuneburg filled with treasure

An Iron Age tomb brimming with treasures fashioned out of gold, bronze and amber was uncovered in 2017 after lying undisturbed by the Danube River for nearly 2,600 years. The hoard surrounded the skeleton of a woman who died between the age of 30 and 40. She was an elite member of a Celtic society that buried her in southern Germany at a hill fort called Heuneburg in 583 B.C.

Multiple graves around the woman's burial had been looted over the millenia, with looters digging tunnels from tomb to tomb. The newfound grave was untouched. It is one of the few undisturbed graves from the first half of the sixth century in Heuneburg.

Heuneburg is a prehistoric hill fort near the Danube River. The Celtic city-state was founded around the sixth century B.C.