Stock Photo - 20 October 2021, Saxony, Chemnitz: Nicole Eichhorn, excavation supervisor, holds a stack of melted shellac records found here in a cellar during archaeological excavations in downtown Chemnitz. The records presumably melted during a fire in the war days. The State Office for Archaeology hopes that the excavations will provide new insights into the early development of the city. In the area now being investigated, there is said to have been a pre-urban settlement before the actual city was founded. Since the start of the excavation in mid-September, the archaeologists have secured findings from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as remains of pre-war buildings, cellars and foundation walls of buildings destroyed during the war. The work is expected to last until the end of December 2021. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Chemnitz/Saxony/Germany