Tools such as this wedge knife made of black siliceous rock bear witness to the Neanderthals’ outstanding skills in making adequate stone tools.

Two teams of oxen were pricked into the sandstone in an extremely simplified form. The depiction is one of the earliest proofs of wheel and wagon in Europe.

The 20- to 30-year-old woman buried here wore opulent bronze jewellery. The most spectacular is the bronze belt plate. Both the belt plate and the neck jewellery reveal ancient mends.

The oak door has been preserved until this day only due to the very moist layers. It is currently Germany’s oldest door.

The elaborately ornamented disks once embellished the horse of a very wealthy man. They were put in his grave along with other valuable possessions.