Battle in the Tollense valley
Thousands of warriors clash in a north German river valley
In the 13th century BC perhaps 4,000 warriors from Central and Northern Europe fought in the valley of the small Tollense river. Archaeologists have found the remains of some 140 people, bronze weapons and horse bones; it is the largest known Bronze Age battlefield north of the Alps.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1274 BC Battle of Kadesh — 24 years earlier
- c. 1259 BC Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty — 9 years earlier
Africa
- c. 1264 BC Temples of Abu Simbel — 14 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1250 BC Oracle bone inscriptions — same year
Alive at the time
- Ramesses II (aged 53)