3,000 year old Bronze Age battlefield mass grave identified in Lithuanian peat bog

Archaeologists working at the Turlojiškė peat bog in southern Lithuania report evidence of a violent event from the Late Bronze Age, around 3,000 years ago. New fieldwork, laboratory tests, and a review of older finds point to a single episode in which a group of young men died and entered a shallow lake that...

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3,000 year old Bronze Age battlefield mass grave identified in Lithuanian peat bog

Archaeologists working at the Turlojiškė peat bog in southern Lithuania report evidence of a violent event from the Late Bronze Age, around 3,000 years ago. New fieldwork, laboratory tests, and a review of older finds point to a single episode in which a group of young men died and entered a shallow lake that...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/bronze-age-battlefield-mass-grave-lithuania/

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