The Graveyard of Conan

A 3200-year-old bronze-age battlefield has been excavated next to the Tollense River near the Baltic Sea. The result: 10,000 bones of at least 130 individuals, plus some horses. The bodies, all men, were hacked with swords, stabbed with spears, and shot with bronze arrowheads. Archaeologists have only opened 450 square meters, which suggests that there’s a lot more to find. If these warriors wore any armor beyond deer hides, it was looted from the bodies. No bronze swords were found, but bodi...