Slaughter At The Bridge: Uncovering A Colossal Bronze Age Battle (sciencemag.org)

schwit1 quotes a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science via Sciencemag.org: About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can't be found in any history books -- the written word didn't become common in these parts for another 2000 years -- but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology. "If our hypothesis is correct that all of the finds belong to the same event, we're dealing with a conflict of a scale hitherto completely unknown north of the Alps," says dig co-director Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage in Hannover. "There's nothing to compare it to." It may even be the earliest direct evidence -- with weapons and warriors together -- of a battle this size anywhere in the ancient world.

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No matter what you call them, they were Europeans

[Taco Cowboy]

3,200 years ago the Europeans knew how to protect themselves against marauding savages

It might not be a pretty sight --- it might be bloody and gory --- but the end result is that the invading savages got wiped before they could do real harm to the population

3,200 years have since passed, and the Europeans nowadays no longer know how to protect their own people against invading savages

Instead of putting some kind of restriction on the entrance of foreign savages, the Europeans are importing MILLIONS of savages

While not all the imported stock create trouble, plenty of them did commit crimes --- from sexual harassment to gang rape, from robbery to murder, and now... TERRORISM

The European Police Departments have also decided that the imported savages get to enjoy privileges never enjoyed by the locals

That is why the European police never bother to investigate the crimes committed by the imported savages --- to the detriment of the original people of Europe

3,200 years from now archeologists of the future may stumble across mass graves containing mutilated corpses - corpses without head, corpses which suffered obvious traumatic events, and so on - on the land previously known as "Europe"

All the victims apparently had been slaughtered in honor of the prophet of a certain 'death cult'

By then, Europe is no more, and the European civilization has vanished without a trace

There is no more fine wine, no more beautiful music, no more freedom, no more advancement in science, no more art, nothing, but strict implementation of SHARIA

Congratulation, Europeans --- you guys have embarked on the remarkable journey of devolution