Word: magdalenaberg
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...along the corridor which these cases form is the building's air raid shelter where all employees will go in the event of a bombing attack. Then, on a lower floor, there are the remains selected from the contents of 300 graves excavated in the famous cemetery of Magdalenaberg, Jugoslavia, by Her Highness, the Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenberg, during the early twentieth century. The Peabody bought these objects, and the Duchess's descendants, regarding them as family heirlooms, have been regretting the sale ever since...
Notes on the excavation work which were written by Her Highness, the Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg have also been bought by the museum. The collection itself consists of the contents of 350 graves from the cemetery of Magdalenaberg, which is in modern Jugoslavia and is now called Magdalenska Gora. It consists of four metal helmets showing various influences which affected the Illyrians, a bronze vase with animal friezes, pottery, swords, spears, knives and small bronze ornaments including many fibulae...
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