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.
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