“The Greeks don’t write about us in Germany; they considered us barbarians. And the people here [in present-day Germany] didn’t write at all, so we really depend on these finds to learn more about potential connections,” says Henker.
I mean…that’s because Germans at the time were the kind of people you didn’t maintain eye contact with for more than a second, and their idea of communicating was splitting your head with an axe. Telescopes, glass and the press was along a little later.
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Berlin was bombed and invaded by soviet and allied soldiers. It’s private houses and museums were looted it’s often wealthy Jewish citizens were murdered and robbed. There are many ways this coin could have been lost in Berlin in the mid 20th century.
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According to the article the coin dates about the same time with the Gallic invasion, which is already a timeframe when Greeks had travelled even greater distances, so it doesn’t sound too far fetched for movement to have existed between such places.
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“The Greeks don’t write about us in Germany; they considered us barbarians. And the people here [in present-day Germany] didn’t write at all, so we really depend on these finds to learn more about potential connections,” says Henker.
I mean…that’s because Germans at the time were the kind of people you didn’t maintain eye contact with for more than a second, and their idea of communicating was splitting your head with an axe. Telescopes, glass and the press was along a little later.
Berlin was bombed and invaded by soviet and allied soldiers. It’s private houses and museums were looted it’s often wealthy Jewish citizens were murdered and robbed. There are many ways this coin could have been lost in Berlin in the mid 20th century.
According to the article the coin dates about the same time with the Gallic invasion, which is already a timeframe when Greeks had travelled even greater distances, so it doesn’t sound too far fetched for movement to have existed between such places.