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Who was the lord of Sakar?

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9842.msg122003#msg122003

Published: September 1, 2025 08:09

Who was the Lord of Sakar? 2,100-year-old Thracian warrior buried with gold treasures, jewellry, and ceremonial artifacts in Bulgaria | World News - The Times of India https://share.google/1eT2LMq4MfgaMGUlhFascinating

Re: Drought in Iraq uncovers new discoveries

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9840.msg121996#msg121996

Published: September 1, 2025 07:02

The Mosul Dam was constructed hurriedly by Saddam, without any proper rescue excavation, so good that the drought (an otherwise bad thing) is being exploited in this way.  The other silver lining may be the safety of the dam - I am out of date, but it ...

Re: Petition against loaning the Bayeaux Tapestry to Britain

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9838.msg121993#msg121993

Published: September 1, 2025 04:04

Little do they suspect that I substituted a copy drawn by my kids years ago, and now have the original tapestry on my loungeroom wall.  I have one end hung from my statue of David whilst the St Mark horses prop up the other. Far better use of antiquiti...

Re: Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9836.msg121983#msg121983

Published: August 31, 2025 16:47

Ah there it is, thanks Anthony.Talking of the "flaming pig effect", I was amused to read Richard Nelson's editorial in Slingshot 60 (or 59 depending which numbering is used), July 1975:"I recently mischievously reminded a member of the WRG that there...

Re: Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9836.msg121981#msg121981

Published: August 31, 2025 16:38

Quote from: RichT on Today at 05:19:15 PMThat in turn arose from a forum discussion presumably about that time, though the search feature for some reason doesn't want to find it for me.You participated in a discussion about belos...

Re: Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9836.msg121980#msg121980

Published: August 31, 2025 16:19

There is nothing new under the sun. I wrote an article on 'belosphendone' which appeared in Slingshot 312 (May-June 2017) and which also discussed the 'cestrosphendone'. That in turn arose from a forum discussion presumably about that time, though the ...

Re: Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

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Published: August 31, 2025 12:53

...but it is easy enough to incorporate them in one's favourite ruleset.  Simply add a new tactical factor/combat result - "Using Cestrosphendon Dart +10 & all opposition removed from table".  Even better than arming one's troops with chainsaw ...

Re: Petition against loaning the Bayeaux Tapestry to Britain

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9838.msg121952#msg121952

Published: August 31, 2025 08:33

Well, for the next 2 years the Tapestry was due to be removed from its current location due to the building of a new display facility.  Signatories of this petition seem to think it would be better to move it into a locked cupboard where no one can see...

Re: Viking reconstructed ship sails up the Thames

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9837.msg121942#msg121942

Published: August 31, 2025 07:06

Quote from: Imperial Dave on August 30, 2025, 10:01:00 PMI can imagine you running along the oars kirk Douglas style....Not merely that. Remember that our greatest king was Canute and it was his influence that ensured that one child of  G...

Petition against loaning the Bayeaux Tapestry to Britain

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9838.msg121937#msg121937

Published: August 31, 2025 04:56

Tens of thousands sign petition against France loaning Bayeux Tapestry to British Museum | The Independent https://share.google/lb2DOUYt59sc05XiHHardly an avalanche of numbers but an interesting discussion....

Re: Viking reconstructed ship sails up the Thames

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9837.msg121921#msg121921

Published: August 30, 2025 18:30

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 07:16:57 PMViking ship sails along River Thames under London's Tower Bridge - BBC News https://share.google/pgrKQnY3EvRVX5XF7The Vikings have landed!What makes you think we ever went away

Re: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9833.msg121918#msg121918

Published: August 30, 2025 12:39

Quote from: Erpingham on Today at 01:11:03 PMor Germans Köln Cologne.Well, I believe that Köln is a corrupted version of the Latin "Colonia" so perhaps the English is, for once, a little closer to the original.

Re: 40 cities that had different names in rhe medieval.period

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Published: August 30, 2025 12:11

A lot of these seem to be adoption of a existing alternative name in a different language as speakers of that language became politically dominant. Others just a shift of English names for places.  I don't think the Italians ever called Livorno Leghorn...

Re: Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9836.msg121907#msg121907

Published: August 30, 2025 04:41

New one on me, too.  Let me see if I can convert some Macedonian slingers to Cestrosphendonophori!?There is a nice video on YouTube, I findhttps://youtu.be/r5PWq3XqGGw?feature=shared

Ancient Tech You’ve Never Heard Of

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9836.msg121906#msg121906

Published: August 30, 2025 03:10

The Cestrosphendon DartWhat was it?A deadly dart designed to be launched from a sling — not thrown by hand! The Cestrosphendon (or kestros) was a small, iron-tipped projectile with a wooden shaft and fletching for stability, kind of lik...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9831.msg121889#msg121889

Published: August 29, 2025 15:33

Quote from: Erpingham on Today at 10:12:23 AMQuote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 05:55:08 AMI wonder what the algorithm uses when selecting info and pictures...does it look at academic papers for instanceWell, the ar...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

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Published: August 29, 2025 13:35

Quote from: Adrian Nayler on Today at 11:49:45 AMI know nothing about how it all works but I suspect that a commercial AI scours the internet looking for content to plagiarise into its imaginary pastiche (you have gathered I'm not yet a fan...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

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Published: August 29, 2025 10:49

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 05:55:08 AMI wonder what the algorithm uses when selecting info and pictures...does it look at academic papers for instanceWhilst anything is possible, I'm not confident that 'AI' in general w...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

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Published: August 29, 2025 09:12

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 05:55:08 AMI wonder what the algorithm uses when selecting info and pictures...does it look at academic papers for instanceWell, the article says"trained on research literature and ancient so...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9831.msg121873#msg121873

Published: August 28, 2025 20:28

Quote from: Erpingham on Today at 07:08:28 PMI think it's amazing how well the tech is coming on. Nicely rendered faces, in particular, I think. But, if the AI is trained on real images, why does it produce legionnaries is Hollywood style l...

Re: AI meets ancient Rome

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Published: August 28, 2025 18:08

I think it's amazing how well the tech is coming on. Nicely rendered faces, in particular, I think. But, if the AI is trained on real images, why does it produce legionnaries is Hollywood style leather muscled cuirasses with pteruges? The chariot proc...

Hittite helmet from Ĺžapinuva

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9830.msg121818#msg121818

Published: August 27, 2025 09:41

If you have had sight of the most recent Ancient Warfare magazine (no. 103) you may have noticed the short note about a Hittite bronze helmet on page 5. This is new to me (and also to the magazine it seems). It was found in 2002 at the Hittite adminis...

One Bridge, Two Fords, Three Battles . . .

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9825.msg121806#msg121806

Published: August 26, 2025 20:34

Battling for a bridge . . . through the centuries, if not millennia.1st - Hittites vs Sea Peoples2nd - Gauls vs Samnites3rd - Mongols vs Teutonic OrderRules used: GRAND TRIUMPH! (along with latest updates and or amendments)Scale: Employed t...

Re: Tomb in Village of Alaca, Çorum, Turkey

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Published: August 26, 2025 14:09

The builders of the house were obviously familiar with Roman burial customs. They seemingly followed the common wish "May the earth lie lightly upon you" by only using mud brick above him! Presumably, Jon's friend was visiting the Hittite site at Alac...

Re: Tomb in Village of Alaca, Çorum, Turkey

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9823.msg121797#msg121797

Published: August 26, 2025 13:06

If you ever meet this ghost, you should probably point out to him that things could have turned out far worse.  I mean, there was this baker in Rome who had an aquaduct built on his tomb...

Re: Tomb in Village of Alaca, Çorum, Turkey

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9823.msg121791#msg121791

Published: August 26, 2025 12:28

We'd probably need to seek reports of hauntings elsewhere. Antigonus' ghost is perhaps more likely to be seeking the return of his monument back to the location it was taken from when first reused.

Re: The fall of Maiden Castle to Roman assault

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9807.msg121785#msg121785

Published: August 26, 2025 09:24

There is an interesting discussion about Iron Age Dorset in this video with Miles Russell. The Maiden Castle myth is covered from minute 36.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpA_Ist5LRY

Tomb in Village of Alaca, Çorum, Turkey

https://soa.org.uk/sm/index.php?topic=9823.msg121778#msg121778

Published: August 25, 2025 17:39

This from a Greek friend of mine...In the village of Alaca, Çorum, Turkey, a rural house was constructed atop an Eastern Roman/Byzantine sarcophagus inscribed in Greek.Ancient materials were reused without awareness of their historical significance, ...