PREVIEW

Anthropologists Annika Simm (l) and Jörg Orschiedt stand at the table with the bones of Otto the Great in the lecture hall on the campus of Magdeburg University Hospital and explain the details of the skull during a press conference. The State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology and the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation are currently carrying out a project to document and restore Otto the Great's tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral. In recent months, the investigations have focused in particular on the mortal remains that were found in the tomb monument.