SECRETS OF STAR DISC

Movies : Documentary
DVD Rip : English

Deep inside this ancient mine is the key to one of Europe's biggest archaeological mysteries. It's a story that begins with a robbery from a burial site in the dark heart of Europe. Its hero is an archaeologist with a taste for adventure. There's even an international police hunt, an undercover sting involving agents from two countries. At its heart is one small piece of bronze.
In 1999 three men came combing through this forest with metal detectors. After several hours they found themselves in a small clearing near a hilltop. Suddenly their detectors came alive. With a pickaxe they tore in to the earth. And after a brief struggle the earth gave up a treasure it had kept safe for over three thousand years.

What these robbers didn't realise was that they may have dug up one of the most significant archaeological finds of the century. For they had found an object that would change how we think about one of the most important times in all human history, the Bronze Age. The Bronze Age dawned some four and a half thousand years ago. It was a time when the trappings of true civilisation appeared. A full two and a half thousand years before the birth of Christ humankind took a giant stride forward. At least so it was around the Mediterranean. Here great architecture flourished.