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Those who have followed me for a while know that I love telling the story about Bertha Benz and the first long-distance car ride in history.

Well, @MercedesBenz just made a big-budget period ad about it.
The only thing that would improve that is Bertha pulling out an egregiously futuristic laser pistol on the line, 'Do you have ten litres of ligroin or not?'.
Also, pretty sure this is the first scene of 'Dark' Season 3.
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Mike Stuchbery💀🍷
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I've been in the university town of Halle this weekend, in the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt, specifically to visit @MuseumHalle - home of some of my favourite archaeological finds.

Let me take you through some of the stuff I saw... 1/
The state of Sachsen-Anhalt has an unusually high density of prehistoric sights and finds - thus, it's fitting that it had Germany's first museum devoted to pre-history - we're talking back to the time of Neanderthal man... /2
Fittingly, the museum has skeletons of mammoths and aurochs - the latter, like bulls - if you gave them steroids and a hair-trigger temper.

It's not until you're up next to these remains that you realise just how terrifying it must have been trying to take one down. /3
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In a few hours I'm getting on a plane to Stuttgart. Over the next week, I'm heading up north to Halle, to interview Prof. Harald Meller about the mysterious Nebra Sky Disk - the earliest depiction discovered of the night sky... /1
I'll be visiting the Museum for Pre-History in Halle, in Saxony, where the Disk is kept, and also the Arche Nebra, close to the site of the discovery of the Disk. /2
I'll also probably be going to the Heuneburg, close to Stuttgart - possibly site of the earliest 'city' north of the Alps. The state government of Baden-Württemburg is spending millions upgrading the site for visitors. /3
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Sometimes you come across an archaeological find that reinforces the shifting of perceptions of the body over time. Meet the 'Shamaness of Bad Dürrenberg'... /1
In 1934, during work in a park in the German town of Bad Dürrenberg, in modern Sachsen-Anhalt, a grave was found. It continued two bodies - a woman, aged 25 - 30 and a child between 4 - 6 months old, sex unknown. /2
Testing revealed the grave to date from 5500 to 6500 BCE. That is to say, the grave was around 8,500 years old. That places it during the Mesolithic era.

The woman was found in a seated position, the child between her legs. /3
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