The exhibition opening Friday at Berlin’s Gropius Bau museum reveals how war, art and migration have left their mark in Germany since the Stone Age. It is the beginning of all innovation,” said Matthias Wemhoff, director of Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History. Some of the objects on display, all of which were found in the past two decades in what is now Germany, are still shrouded in mystery. While another ancient military confrontation — the Battle of Kadesh in 1274 B.C. About 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres) away in the Tollense valley on the frigid plains of northern Germany, thousands of Bronze Age warriors were also going to battle at almost the same time.

Source: National Post September 21, 2018 06:19 UTC