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Towards the end of the 20th century, in a remote valley in northeastern Germany, a unique archaeological discovery was made.

A find so important that it would revolutionize our understanding of ancient Europe forever.

A battle was fought here.

We know not who the combatants were.

We know not what they were fighting over, but we do know that this battlefield dating to

well over 3,000 years ago is the earliest ever yet found in Europe, and therefore one of the most significant in the entire world.

We have records of many battles during the Bronze Age,

that era of metalworking and progress

which began in the 4th millennium BC and ended in collapse

during the 12th.

Perhaps the most striking of these was the conflict fought between Hittites and Egyptians

at Kadesh in 1274 BC, recorded in vivid detail in inscriptions dedicated to the

Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Kadesh is well known for being the earliest battle we have evidence for of actual tactics

and strategies.

Yet earlier battles were fought too, such as at Telmogito in 1457 BC, again involving

Imperial Egypt, but this time against a coalition of vassal states in Canaan. Such was the

brutality of this battle that it lent itself to the modern term Armageddon.

But others exist too, countless untold more, since the birth of the first cities some 6,000 years ago.

Yet all of these battles cities some 6,000 years ago.

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