The history of the discovery at the centre of this book begins in the autumn of 2006. At that time the laboratory technician of the Institute of Archaeology and Museology of Masaryk University, Pavel Čáp, came up with the surprising claim that he had identified the place at Pohansko where the second Great Moravian church is situated - a church which generations of archaeologists had searched for in vain since the end of the 1950s when systematic excavation went full steam ahead in this area.