PREVIEW

Participants at a press conference stand at the table with the bones of Otto the Great in the lecture hall on the campus of Magdeburg University Hospital. The stone tomb of Otto the Great (912-973) in Magdeburg Cathedral is currently being renovated. Researchers had therefore examined the bones of the medieval ruler. The decisive proof that it was Otto I was provided by genetics. Archaeological analyses of the bones of Otto the Great and Henry II from Bamberg Cathedral proved that it was almost certainly Otto.