Bronze Age regicide? German forensics team say prince of Helmsdorf was murdered

Deutsch Welle ^ | December 18, 2018 | Jon Shelton with dpa

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

Or, it could be something like a von Stuck painting:

http://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/franz-von-stuck-the-fight-over-a-woman-1905_u-l-f8iawg0.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[Pharmboy]

It might not have been a political assassination—could have well been a fight over a woman.