4,000-year-old burial mounds destroyed by looters in Denmark

Police are investigating the damage done to four ancient burials sites in Denmark that date back 4,000 years.

Lars Bjarke Christensen, an archaeologist from the Culture Ministry, is gutted over the theft and the loss of Danish history.

”It’s a disaster. The grave robbers have ruined part of Denmark’s history,” Christensen told DR Nyheder.

”The things we could have learned from the burial mounds have now been erased from history. We can no longer investigate how ancient life was in this area of Jutland.”

[Full story]

Story: CW, Copenhagen Post | Photo: Scanpix