2,700-Year-Old Figurine Reveals a Heavy Mystery

[ad_1] Two summers ago, while snorkeling in the marshy streams of the Tollense River on Germany’s Baltic coast, a 51-year-old truck driver, Ronald Borgwardt, made a startling discovery. Mixing the peat, she got a six-inch-tall bronze figurine with an egg-shaped head, looped arms, lumpy breasts, and a snout that would make an anteater envy. The …