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Teen discovers first ancient Greek artifact found in Berlin

Deutsche Welle · 🇩🇪 public Germany · · 890 words · By Sarah Hucal
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Teen discovers first ancient Greek artifact found in Berlin April 17, 2026While walking through Berlin's western neighborhood of Spandau, a 13-year-old made a discovery that has been hailed as highly significant in Germany's archaeological history.

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What happened

Teen discovers first ancient Greek artifact found in Berlin April 17, 2026While walking through Berlin's western neighborhood of Spandau, a 13-year-old made a discovery that has been hailed as highly significant in Germany's archaeological history.

Why it matters

He found a small bronze coin, which experts have since dated 2,300 years — back to the ancient Greek city of Troy, in present-day Turkey.

Common ground

For archaeologist Jens Henker of Berlin Heritage Authority, who was responsible for analyzing the find, it was a situation unlike any has seen in his career: "This young boy realized he had found something interesting and he wanted to know more about it,"…

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Claim 1: “researchers to conclude that this are was used as a burial ground dating as far back as the early Iron Age”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the site being used as a burial ground since the early Iron Age.
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Claim 2: “is currently on display at Berlin's PETRI museum in the 'current finds' exhibition space”
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Multiple sources confirm the coin is on display at the PETRI Museum in Berlin.
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web search NEUTRAL — Berlin U-Bahn Museum [de]. Westend. Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Transportation. Website, history of the city's subway system, located in the historical signal tower at the Berlin Olympiastadion statio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_and_galleries_…
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web search NEUTRAL — An ancient Greek coin unearthed by a teenager in Berlin, dating back over 2,300 years, highlighting the rich historical connections between Greece and Europe.Weighing just seven grams and measuring 12…
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/20/teenager-unearths-2300…
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web search NEUTRAL — Once turned over to experts at the Berlin State Monuments Office , the question was whether the coin—now on display at PETRI Museum—was truly an artifact found in an archaeological context, or simply …
https://www.aol.com/articles/teenager-walking-down-street-fo…
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Claim 3: “The small bronze coin weighs only 7 grams (0.25 ounces) and measures 12 millimeters (0.5 inches)”
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Multiple sources confirm the coin weighs 7 grams and measures 12 millimeters.
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web search NEUTRAL — The brass sestertius typically weighs about 25–28 grams, measures about 32–34 mm in diameter, and is about 4 mm thick.Diameter 35 mm. Early brass sestertii are prized by numismatists. Their broad flan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestertius
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web search NEUTRAL — Convert ounces to grams (oz to g) with the weight conversion calculator, and learn the ounce to gram formula.
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web search NEUTRAL — To measure grams with a spoon, you are converting volume (space) into weight (mass). Because ingredients have different densities, the gram weight of a “spoonful” changes depending on what you are mea…
https://weighopedia.com/how-to-measure-grams-without-a-scale…
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Claim 4: “While walking through Berlin's western neighborhood of Spandau, a 13-year-old made a discovery... He found a small bronze coin”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that a 13-year-old boy found a small bronze coin in the Spandau neighborhood of Berlin.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Berlin-Spandau station is a Deutsche Bahn station in the Berlin district of Spandau on the south-western edge of the old town of Spandau. The railway junction station is one of the 80 stations classif…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin-Spandau_station
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spandau (German: [ˈʃpandaʊ] ) is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs (Bezirke) of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Spandau Prison was a military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day Berlin, Germany). Built in 1876, it became a proto-concentration camp under Nazi Germany. After the Seco…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Prison
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Claim 5: “fragments of ceramics, Slavonic-era knives and a bronze button have been unearthed on the site, as well as burnt human bones”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding ceramic fragments, Slavonic knives, bronze buttons, or burnt bones at this specific site.
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Claim 6: “Pytheas, a Greek explorer who around 330 BC traveled from present-day Marseille, France to northern Europe, documenting the British Isles, traveled to the Arctic Ocean and possibly even reached the Baltic Sea”
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Claim 7: “The so-called 'amber road' is one of the only known trade routes between the Mediterranean and northern Europe”
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Claim 8: “On one side, it depicts the warrior goddess Athena wearing a Corinthian helmet, on the other, Athena wears a headdress and has a spear and a spindle”
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Two independent sources describe the imagery: Athena with a Corinthian helmet on one side, and Athena with a headdress, spear, and spindle on the other.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretised with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regar…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The statue of Athena Parthenos (Ancient Greek: Παρθένος Ἀθηνᾶ, lit. 'Athena the Virgin') was a monumental chryselephantine sculpture of the goddess Athena. Attributed to Phidias and dated to the mid-f…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος, "Athena who fights in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Phidias, which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acro…
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Claim 9: “For Berlin it's the first find from Greek antiquity”
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Sources from PETRI Berlin and other news reports state that while Roman objects are found, Greek finds had been entirely absent until this discovery.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece
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web search NEUTRAL — "Finds dating back to classical antiquity are generally rare in Berlin," PETRI Berlin said. "While Roman objects are occasionally—yet regularly—attested, Greek finds have until now been entirely absen…
https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/rare-greek-coin-from-3r…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ancient Trojan coin found in Berlin, dating back over 2,300 years, offers rare insight into Greek antiquity and trade practices. This significant archaeological find highlights the historical connecti…
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/18/trojan-coin-berlin-dis…
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Claim 10: “experts have since dated 2,300 years — back to the ancient Greek city of Troy, in present-day Turkey”
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Multiple sources confirm the coin was struck in the ancient city of Troy (Ilion) in present-day Turkey and is approximately 2,300 years old.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the twelfth or thirteenth century BC. The war was waged by the Achaeans (Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Troy (Greek: Τροία, romanised: Troíā; Hittite: 𒆳𒌷𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭, romanised: Truwiša/Taruiša; Latin: Troia) or Ilion (Greek: Ἴλιον, romanised: Ī́lion; Hittite: 𒌷𒃾𒇻𒊭, romanised: Wiluša) was an ancient city locate…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Troy is a 2004 epic historical action film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff. Produced by units in Malta, Mexico and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensembl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film)
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Claim 11: “Berlin's Museum for Pre- and Early History has been systematically conducting surveys on empty land in Berlin since the 1950s”
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web search NEUTRAL — Museum in Berlin, Germany.An architectural competition in 2000 was won by Oswald Mathias Ungers from Cologne. The Pergamon Museum will be redeveloped according to his plan, which controversially propo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Berlin'sMuseum for Pre- and Early History has been systematically conducting surveys on empty land in Berlin since the 1950s to determine where possible excavation sites might be.
https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/dw+english-epaper-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Museums in Berlin. Museum für Naturkunde (3). Natural History Museum.Pergamon Museum, Museum Island, Jewish Museum and many more: Berlin's top museums with addresses, information about current exhibit…
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Claim 12: “The coin dates to the Hellenistic period, to 281 and 261 BC”
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Multiple sources specifically date the coin to the Hellenistic period between 281 and 261 BC.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era, epoch, or historical period. In the Mediterranean Basin, the first few …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Roman. The Archaic period extends fro…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_period
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