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

    12/26/2018 12:40:05 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Deutsch Welle ^ | December 18, 2018 | Jon Shelton with dpa
    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...