Buried after warrior’s death?
Around 4000-year-old tomb discovered in Brandenburg
4/12/2022, 9:32 p.m
Archaeologists made a sensational find near Wustermark: the grave of several closely entwined people was excavated. The skeletons are in good condition. They already provide information about how these original Brandenburgers could have died.
Archaeologists have discovered a millennia-old burial site near Wustermark in Brandenburg with the remains of several people. According to current knowledge, people were buried in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age around 2200 to 1800 BC, as reported by the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeological State Museum (BLDAM). The experts made the very rare find a few weeks ago. Why the people were buried together and what they died of is not yet known.
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The extraordinary find will be recovered in a block to be transported away undamaged, it said. For this purpose, among other things, a large steel plate is pushed under the tomb in order to then salvage it. The entire block, whose weight is estimated at three to four tons, is to be examined further there after it has been transported by truck to the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Wünsdorf.
Images of the block show several well-preserved human skeletons lying close together. On April 12, 2022, the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the Archaeological State Museum presented the sensational find to journalists. Until then, the bones had been carefully but only partially uncovered, according to a report by a reporter from the “Märkische Onlinezeitung”.
The first findings, which the experts were able to gain on site, are indicative according to the newspaper pointed out that the five men were killed in action. Your skull had been smashed in. A flint arrowhead discovered in one of the men’s abdomen was said to have been painful but not fatal. However, the men and the small child were lovingly buried together.