Frombork Archsee. Poland. General view

Frombork Archsee was the place where canon Nicolaus Copernicus had his final rest. Unfortunately no one marked Copernicus grave with the tombstone. For over four centuries many scientists, historians, archeologists and astonomy funs tried to solve the mystery of his tomb.

Frombork Archsee. 3D visualiz. from above.

Looking from above through the roof of the Frombork Archsee, we could see the blue traces where georadar detected graves under the Cathedral floor. There were hundreds of them. Scientists decided to dig close to the St. Cross altair belonged to canon Nicolaus Copernicus.

Frombork Archsee. Excavation site 2005. St. Cross Altair. 3D visualiz.

During the year 2005, the second year of excavations in gothic Frombork Archsee, archeologists discovered seventeen graves, some of them heavily destroyed. Graves were founded starting from 50 cm and ended aproximately 2 meters below the Cathedral floor.

Frombork Archsee. Real excavation site 2005. St. Cross Altair.

Archeologist mgr Beata Jurkiewicz at the excavation site is pointing the corner of the site with fourty years old man skull. Scientists were looking for tomb with a man aged seventy. Copernicus was seventy in the year of death. The skull in the corner was not the proper one.

Frombork. Archeological Station. August 2005.

Prof. Karol Piasecki is examining the skull from the tomb nr 13, discovered in 2005 in Frombork Archsee. It was the first examination pointed on that skull as the possible Copernicus skull. Later researchers confirmed that this skull belonged to Nicolaus Copenicus.