On 10 January, the Laténium, the archaeological museum of the canton of Neuchatel, inaugurated the museum's new permanent exhibition room devoted to the Iron Age, the highlight of which is obviously the spectacular collection resulting from the excavations at the La Tène site, located on the lakeshore within rifle range of the museum.

It should be remembered that fortuitous discoveries, more or less wild excavations, and then more systematic excavations carried out there between the 1860s and 1910 uncovered a unique collection of objects, which gave the Second Iron Age its other name. An examination of these objects shows, however, that the vast majority of them relate to a very small period, around 200 BC, whereas the so-called La Tène period conventionally covers half a millennium, from the 5th to the 1st century BC.

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