Remains of soldiers during Thirty Years' War
(Reuters) Updated: 2007-07-24 20:53
Human skulls are pictured in a mass grave of
about 100 soldiers killed during a battle between Swedish and imperial Saxon
troops during the Thirty Years' War on October 5th, 1636, near the village of
Scharfenberg, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of Berlin July 24, 2007. The
Thirty Years War was a series of wars in central Europe lasting from 1618 to
1648, principally on the territory of today's Germany, and involved most of the
major European continental powers. [Reuters]
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