Archaeologists Just Discovered the Mangled Remains of a Slaughtered Barbarian Tribe in Denmark
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | May 22, 2018 01:54pm ET
Some 2,000 years ago, a ragtag troop of about 400 Germanic tribesmen marched into battle against a mysterious adversary in Denmark, and they were slaughtered to the last man.
Or at least that's the story their bones tell. Exhumed from Alken Enge — a peat bog in Denmark's Illerup River Valley — between 2009 and 2014, nearly 2,100 bones belonging to the dead fighters have given archaeologists a rare window into the post-battle rituals of Europe's so-called "barbarian" tribes during the height of the Roman Empire. In a new study published online May 21 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark dug into the bloody details.
https://www.livescience.com/62636-barbarian-bones-ritual-burial-denmark.html
