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Vienna (pte052/14.01.2003/15:10) - Europe's biggest ever discovery of Bronze Age weapons and jewellery has been made in Austria which archaeologists believe could prove Europe rivalled Greece in terms of society and technology.
The scientists from the University of Innsbruck http://www.uibk.ac.at and the Austrian National Memorial Office have so far found 360 pieces buried at the side of a crevice in Moosbruckschrofen am Piller in Tyrol. It is thought they had been laid there as part of a ritual offering sometime between 1550 and 1250 BC.
As well as swords, axes, spearheads, sickles and jewellery the historians also found part of a bronze helmet. It is thought the helmet could be one of the earliest such finds. The only other helmet thought to be from the 14th or 13th century BC was one that had been discovered on Crete, which the experts have said was of a totally different sort.
Gerhard Tomedi from the Institute for Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and Markus Egg from the Roman-German Central Museum in Mainz, Germany, believe the find could be important in proving that central Europe in the Bronze Age was not inferior in technical areas to Greece as had previously been thought.
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