World's First Battlefield

Sky History

4:00 AM to 5:00 AM

Tuesday 7 May

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Part one of two. Miraculously preserved bones, skulls, and weapons found by chance in Tollense Valley, Northern Germany. The amateur archaeologist uncovered items that have been dated to the same historical period - 1,300 BC, during the Bronze Age. Predating any battlefield discovery yet made, it is extimated that as many as 2,000 warriors fought and perhaps 400 were killed