He was said to be the "first European", our mystical brother who emerged from the Ice Age. No one knows exactly why it disappeared 30,000 years ago. It was in 1856 when the first bones of this prehistoric man were discovered in Germany. Since then, Neanderthals have been shrouded in a veil of mystery. How much of it still exists in us? For more than 13 years, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have been working to decipher the Neanderthal genome.
Direction: Tamara Spitzing, Jörg Müllner