The bones of the prince of Helmsdorf, who scientists now say was the victim of the world's oldest known political assassination (picture-alliance/dpa/H. Schmidt)
Posted on 12/26/2018 12:40:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Scientists have reexamined the skeleton of the prince, who died 3,846 years ago. They say injuries found on his bones point to the "oldest political assassination in history," probably by an "experienced warrior." ...The forensic examination took place at the urging of Kai Michel, who co-authored a new book on the Nebra Sky Disc with Saxony-Anhalt State Archaeologist Harald Meller. The two suggest that the Bronze Age Unetice culture, which produced the disc depicting the cosmos, was the first high culture to evolve north of the Alps...
Ramsthaler says the intensity of the injury indicates that the prince would have been stabbed as he stood against the wall, or perhaps while lying on the floor. The forensic scientist says the stabbing would also have severed arteries, leading to certain death... The prince of Helmsdorf was buried in the Leubinger mound discovered by Friedrich Klopfleisch in 1877 and dated around 1940 BC. It is regarded as one of the richest Early Bronze Age graves in the whole of Western Europe.
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The bones of the prince of Helmsdorf, who scientists now say was the victim of the world's oldest known political assassination (picture-alliance/dpa/H. Schmidt)
If he was a democrat .... he's not done voting yet soooooooo ......
He probably had some issue with the plans for a Barbarian Amnesty, which then triggered one of the Social Justice Warriors.
I suspect he was caught and punished, he just didn't get an elaborate burial.
What did he know about Hillary and the Clinton Foundation?
Love yours posts, BTW. Consistently fascinating.
Well, Hillary does look like she was alive during the Bronze age, so it is possible this could have been her work.
Later.
He may have been the next king until someone further down the line caught up with him.
He’s probably under a parking lot somewhere, like Richard III.
Or was this a simple knife fight over some maiden who watched with delight.
Probably not “oldest political assassination in history,” just what we’ve found so far.
‘probably by an “experienced warrior.”’
Well, if you are going to be assassinated, you probably would rather they not send an amateur.
Well, color me skeptical of this “lone daggerman” theory, or the “magic stabbing” as we sometimes call it. I think it’s much more likely there were one or more professional bowmen hidden in the grassy marsh who caught him in a crossfire.
And 3,845 years later, Mueller of Helmsdorf is still investigating . . .
Yeah, really, no one who's being assassinated wants to go down in history (literally) or even prehistory as being the schlub who was cut down by some amateur.
Wholeheartedly agree. S/B "oldest known political assassination". Also, I appreciate their forensic "crime scene" approach, and its accepted practice, use of which made it possible. It's amazing that an archaeological find from the (I think) 19th century was so professionally excavated, but that's the Germans for ya. Well, other than Schliemann -- he contributed mightily to archaeology, but at Hissarlik he wound up making himself in the Chainsaw Massacre Archaeologist. However, his assistant Dorpfeld straightened out the whole mess and imo came to the correct conclusion (that Troy VI was the "Iliad" layer).
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