Mass Grave from Thirty Years' War Battle Reveals Soldiers' Fatal Wounds
By Megan Gannon, Live Science Contributor | May 31, 2017 07:03am ET
On Nov. 16, 1632, the Protestant Swedish army and Catholic Holy Roman Empire's imperial army clashed during the Battle of Lützen in Germany.
Credit: J. Lipták, O. Schröder
In November of 1632, the townspeople of Lützen, Germany, were stuck with a grim task: They had to bury some 9,000 soldiers who were left dead on a battlefield after a bloody fight during the Thirty Years' War.
Archaeologists recently undid some of that work.
http://www.livescience.com/59302-germany-thirty-years-war-grave-revealed.html
