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Bavarian Troy: Archaeologists find unique wall - Were people sacrificed here?

2022-12-15T04:00:36.743Z


Bavarian Troy: Archaeologists find unique wall - Were people sacrificed here? Created: 2022-12-15 04:52 By: Johannes Welte Prof. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick in front of the excavated wall on thestätteberg near Neuburg an der Donau © Simeth It is a mystery who built these mighty walls near Neuburg an der Donau: Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest stone wall of its kind and the oldest quarry n


Bavarian Troy: Archaeologists find unique wall - Were people sacrificed here?

Created: 2022-12-15 04:52

By: Johannes Welte

Prof. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick in front of the excavated wall on thestätteberg near Neuburg an der Donau © Simeth

It is a mystery who built these mighty walls near Neuburg an der Donau: Archaeologists have uncovered the oldest stone wall of its kind and the oldest quarry north of the Alps.

They are about 3400 years old.

Neuburg an der Donau - In Egypt, Tutankhamun reigned in the era when it came into being and Troy was reduced to rubble by its conquerors.

Prof. Carola Metzner-Nebelsick from the LMU Munich stands proudly in front of a man-high wall made of limestone up to 70 centimeters in size, which was quarried from a quarry next door.

During an excavation this year by the Institute for Prehistoric and Early Historical Archeology at the LMU and the University of Warsaw, students from the LMU and the University of Rome uncovered the Bronze Age wall on the site hill just south of the Danube.

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"It is the earliest and largest of its kind north of the Alps," reports Prof. Metzner-Nebelsick.

"Similar walls protected the palace of the legendary kings of Mycenae." Troy was also surrounded by such "cyclopean walls".

Two wall shells made of limestone blocks, originally a good two meters high, were filled with small stones and rammed earth packing.

Massive wooden posts on both sides held the construction together and formed the foundation of a wooden walkway.

The city walls of Troy © CherryX/Wikipedia

The end of the castle in what is now northern Upper Bavaria came as violently as in Troy: "In a violent inferno, this wall was burned down over its entire length at the beginning of the late Bronze Age," reports the archaeologist.

"After that, the castle was probably razed after a siege and never settled again."

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Bavarian Troy: Were people sacrificed here?

Bavarian Troy was 86 hectares in size, it also had an acropolis - a temple on the highest point of the mountain where burnt animal sacrifices were offered to the gods.

Shards of pottery and animal bones were found behind the wall - the remains of meals or sacrifices.

Human bones have also been discovered.

It remains to be clarified whether these are human sacrifices or deaths from the siege.

Was it a Räter settlement?

They lived more in the Alps.

There were no Celts yet. The question of whether there was a settlement in the castle has not yet been clarified, as no excavations have taken place there.

That should change.

Prof. Metzner-Nebelsick: "The project isn't over yet."

It is an archaeological sensation that sheds light on the relatively unexplored period between antiquity and the Middle Ages: in a new development area of ​​the spa town of Bad Füssing (Passau district), archaeologists have unearthed the skeleton of a Bavarian princess, which is characterized by extraordinarily luxurious jewelry.

Source: merkur

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