... "Lost the photocopy" must rank right up there with "The dog ate my homework" and "The volcano eruption buried the valley with the live dinosaurs" as...
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Sep 1, 2006 7:44 am
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The polls are now closed, and the result will be announced at the Society AGM on the 16th. cheers, Duncan...
A little Googling found the following at http://www.parthia.com/webreport_16.htm : Dubs, H. H. "A military contract between Chinese and Romans in 36 B.C."...
Rob Pooley
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Sep 1, 2006 8:26 am
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Yes, It's the fish scale formation thing... quotes: Dub re the 10,000 prisoners from Carrhae: "We know little of what happened to these prisoners, Pliny states...
Thanks Tom. Nothing new there then, by the looks of it. Rob...
Rob Pooley
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Sep 1, 2006 11:00 am
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... from ... to ... through ... This response is unnecessary, arrogant and abrasive. It is particularly disappointing coming from someone whose contributions ...
In fairness, I should add that in 1957 Dubs would have had virtually no access to China or Central Asia. But this is one of those things that will keep coming...
Many of you who are researching mediaeval history probably know this already, but I've only just discovered that there's a digital site for the MGH at...
But...although he may have written it in 1957....there is nothing to say
when he actually obtained the evidence he claims to have had. It could have
been much...
Uncanny coincidences abound. I also recall the article about a Roman City in China. I further recall that it has been referebced on this and other sites...
... be most unlikely. Laminar armour in a steppe context in the 1st cent BC is much more likely to be of Iranian provenance. (parthians, Saka) or even Chinese....
... I'm interested in this Han-period tapestry showing Roman soldiers. I've heard of the 'fish-scale formation' as 'evidence' for Romans, but the tapestry...
... It was referenced November 2004, in 44410 - possibly earlier but that was what the site search turned up. Adding to the mystery, the article titles and...
Hello, I'm looking for books dealing with the flemish and spanish armies in the XIVth and XVth cent., especially their organization & tactics. Many thanks alex...
I don't think that there is any tapestry. The original work was based on written descriptions of the dreaded 'fish-scale' formation. It gets resurected every...
... For first half 14th. Century Flemish, try J.F. Verbruggen : The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages Kelly DeVries : Infantry Warfare in...
Not quite military history, but of interest: http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2006/09_Settembre/01/etruschi.shtml You can find pictures of the main...
Alex, For the Spanish, see the works of Rene Quatrefages (in French) and A. D. McJoynt, ed., The Art of War in Spain: The Conquest of Granada, 1481-1492 (in...
Etruscan Sanctuary Discovered Spectacular find at Orvieto. Archaeologists have been searching for religious and political centre since sixteenth century. ...
Hi Guys Anyone interested in the normans/saxons should try and make this - http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.9536 This year as its the big...
As part of my on-going quest to understand Scottish Medieval warfare, I'm searching for references to the Highland Charge earlier than the 17th. Century. More...
... There is apparently a new visitors' centre too. I wonder whatever happened to the display model made for the 1966 event, which is pictured in some of Don...
I am wanting to know what figures I should use to depict Jurchen of 1592 to use as oppostion for the Japanese of the Korean Invasion. I wish to depict light...
... The Stuart Reid's of this world don't believe it existed even in the late period, I believe. I think it's mostly a dodgy artefact of modern historians. You...
... OK, if we assume that the Galwegians fought in the same way as Highlanders (not implausible). Although as they are described as having long spears and...
... different ... were at ... Fair point, though it is actually difficult to pin down how @Norse@ they were militarily. It seems clear that the Scandinavians ...
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