Germany offers a rich exploration of history through its extensive museum network. The Arche Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt features the Nebra Sky Disk, a pivotal Bronze Age artifact related to astronomy. Discovered in 1999, the disk is housed in the State Museum of Pre- and Early History. In Baden-Württemberg, the Atomkeller Museum documents Germany's nuclear weapons program during World War II, including a prototype fission reactor built in a local beer cellar. The museum captures significant historical events and technological advancements from the distant and recent pasts.
Over three thousand years later, in 1999, it was uncovered by black market treasure hunters, becoming Germany's most significant archaeological find.
While the Sky Disk itself is kept in the State Museum of Pre- and Early History in nearby Halle, the site of the discovery is marked by the Arche Nebra, a museum explaining prehistoric astronomy.
Even as defeat loomed, Nazi scientists such as Werner Heisenberg were trying to develop a nuclear bomb. An old beer cellar under the town of Halgerloch was commandeered as the site of a prototype fission reactor.
A squad of American soldiers captured and dismantled the reactor as the war ended. The site was later turned into a museum documenting German efforts to create a working reactor.
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