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'Europe's oldest battle' in Germany's Tollense Valley 3,250 years ago may actually have been a brutal MASSACRE of 1,400 Bronze Age merchants
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 26, 2020 | Joe Pinkstone

Posted on 10/26/2020 8:51:18 AM PDT by C19fan

Fresh analysis of Europe's earliest known battle has thrown up the possibility the 1,400 people who died at the site, in Germany's Tollense Valley, were not warriors engaged in a brutal melee, but ambushed merchants who were ruthlessly slain.

The identity of the assailants remains unknown but it is thought they surprised the entourage and killed their guards before looting and murdering them.

Human remains at the site in North East Germany, near today's border with Poland and 80 miles north of Berlin, were first found in 1996.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; bronze; bronzeage; germany; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; lactoseintolerance; tollensevalley
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1 posted on 10/26/2020 8:51:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

The more things change...


2 posted on 10/26/2020 8:52:51 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau; C19fan

BLM? Antifa? Occupy? Democrats?.......................


3 posted on 10/26/2020 8:55:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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Hmmm . . . I wonder if DNA analysis would find them to be Jewish merchants???? Did they discover a first Holocaust???? Would not surprise me


4 posted on 10/26/2020 8:56:04 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: C19fan

“Possibility.” “It is thought that...” “Is believed to be.”

Well. Another write-up that’s nothing more than conjecture. Anthropology strikes again.


5 posted on 10/26/2020 8:57:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Red Badger

News reports at the time said it was a “mostly peaceful” massacre.


6 posted on 10/26/2020 8:57:51 AM PDT by katana
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To: C19fan

White people

When we were Comanches


7 posted on 10/26/2020 8:58:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you run the tra)
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To: Seruzawa

Nothing to see here !
All it was, was a hostile corporate takeover done in the Neolithic style.


8 posted on 10/26/2020 8:59:17 AM PDT by Reily
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To: C19fan

AG Barr expects indictments any day.


9 posted on 10/26/2020 8:59:42 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: wardaddy

Eaxctly !
Humans doing what humans do !


10 posted on 10/26/2020 9:00:27 AM PDT by Reily
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To: katana

LOL!.......................


11 posted on 10/26/2020 9:01:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: RatRipper

The first historical non-Biblical source of there being an Israel, the Merneptah Stele, has been dated to early 13th century BC.


12 posted on 10/26/2020 9:01:11 AM PDT by C19fan
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1800 “merchants” traveling as a group? I’m not buying that story.


13 posted on 10/26/2020 9:01:31 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
"That's what the Germans would have you believe."


14 posted on 10/26/2020 9:03:40 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: RatRipper

1230’s BC I don’t think there were many Jews then. They were still Israelites...............


15 posted on 10/26/2020 9:04:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: wardaddy

Tattoo’d Teutonic women went topless in support their men warriors. Hmmm.


16 posted on 10/26/2020 9:04:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

Sorry. Did not pay close enough attention to date. That would have been way prior to Diaspora, and working from memory, probably pretty early in the patriarch age.


17 posted on 10/26/2020 9:04:37 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: PAR35

It would make sense for merchants to form caravans for protection. Sizeable caravans crossed the Sahara and the Silk Road.


18 posted on 10/26/2020 9:04:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: RatRipper

That’s a hell of a conclusion to jump to. What are the odds that almost 2,000 Israelites would be wandering around that part of Europe at that time?


19 posted on 10/26/2020 9:05:46 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: wardaddy

Germany!

20 posted on 10/26/2020 9:06:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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