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Tango0109 Mar 2021 9:53 p.m. PST

…warrior tribe in ancient cemetery

"Archaeologists have discovered rare swords, spears and knives among hundreds of items belonging to a long-disappeared people famed for their warrior culture in the Suwałki region of eastern Poland.

The weapons were among 500 items dating back around 1,000 years dug up on the site of a cemetery belonging to the Yotvingians.

A Baltic people the Yotvingians had cultural ties to the Lithuanians and Prussians. Occupying an area of land that now straddles parts of Poland, Lithuania and Belarus they spoke a language related to Old Prussian but were, over time, absorbed into the larger Slavic and Germanic groups that surrounded them…"

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The Tin Dictator10 Mar 2021 10:47 a.m. PST

Ah yes.
Legalized grave robbing.

Tango0110 Mar 2021 12:41 p.m. PST

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Tango0124 Apr 2021 3:15 p.m. PST

This one looks better shape…

Unique Bronze Age ceremonial sword found in Denmark


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Tango0109 Jul 2021 10:21 p.m. PST

Coventry's medieval civic sword comes home


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