Huge complex of Iron Age salt-mining chambers discovered beneath Hallstatt

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Europe · Austria · Sep 11, 2026
Primary source: ORF

Archaeologists from the Natural History Museum Vienna have found a network of several parallel Iron Age mining chambers, about 25 m wide and 20 m high, extending some 300 metres through the Hallstatt salt mountain in Austria.

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