Foto de stock - 18 May 2021, Saxony-Anhalt, Pömmelte: Merle Scheunchen (l), deputy excavation manager of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeology for the excavations in Pömmelte, and Gunnar Schellenberger (CDU), State Secretary for Culture in the State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt, stand next to the findings of a well. The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeology is currently digging in the area surrounding the site. The focus of the archaeological investigations is the extensive Early Bronze Age settlement that once existed at the gates of the ring sanctuary. During the new investigations at the ring ditch site, houses, rubbish pits and this supposed well have been found. According to archaeologists, the Bronze Age settlement, which is around 4200 years old, is the largest Early Bronze Age settlement in Central Europe. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa. - Pömmelte/Saxony-Anhalt/Germany