"The swastika design next to the man's head predates the adoption of this symbol by the Nazis."
1,500 years ago!
WaitWaitWha
This saddens me that this had to be written.
Reasoning
Did it have to be written? Who's the hypothetical person who is confused that a 1,500 year old gold disk is older than the Nazi era.
necovek
Nobody is confused about that, but people are confused about whether the swastika represents something similar to Nazi ideology before the Nazis appropriated it.
1,500 years ago!