'Tall' 1,300-Year-Old Skeleton With Knife Found at Construction Site

BY PANDORA DEWAN ON 9/14/23 AT 2:05 PM EDT

The body of a 1,300-year-old man has been found on the site of a future Intel chip manufacturing plant in Germany.

The discovery came during excavation work that has revealed 50 building floor plans belonging to a 3,500- to 4,500-year-old settlement on the site, which is near the city of Magdeburg.

"The dead man was 1.65 meters long [5 feet, 5 inches] and quite tall for the time," Susanne Friederich, archaeologist and project manager at the Halle State Office for Monument Preservation and Archaeology, told local news outlet Tag24.

"The man wore a knife on his right thigh. The metal tip of a sword scabbard, a belt buckle and the remains of a bronze brooch that held the man's garment together have also been preserved," she said.

The weapons included in the grave suggest that the man was most likely a warrior.

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