’[…] the things we have found in these graves are numerous and very beautiful […] There was an urn all of gold, and inside there was still a small wooden box with something the size of a grapefruit, and the soldier who opened it said it smelled of seawater, algae and dead crustaceans […]’

(Translation of Theodor Konrad Preuss, director of the Forensic Anthropology department at the Max Uhle Institute of Archaeology in Tübingen).