From ScienceDaily — A fractured skull and a thighbone hacked in
half. Finds of damaged human bones along with axes, spears,
clubs and shields confirm that the bog at Alken Enge was the
site of violent conflict. “It’s clear that this must have been a
quite far-reaching and dramatic event that must have had
profound effect on the society of the time,” explains Project
Manager Mads Kähler Holst, professor of archaeology at Aarhus
University. For almost two months now, Dr Holst and a team of
fifteen archaeologists and geologists have been working to
excavate the remains of a large army that was sacrificed at the
site around the time of the birth of Christ. The skeletal
remains of hundreds of warriors lie buried in the Alken Enge
wetlands near Lake Mossø in East Jutland, Denmark… For the
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