I attach a Post from Mark Fry reference the Armati games weekend at Bournemouth. We provide all the armies so you have no need to bring troops. Reasonably...
FOG tournament for Millennium XI is now available for registration, see the info below. MILLENNIUMCON PLAYER REGISTRATION IS OPEN The countdown is on for...
Note the depiction of a Judaean archer. Actual seals from excavations are very rare (as compared to those that come from the "mysterious" black market). This...
This weekend my family and I were in St Albans and fulfilled a long term ambition by visiting the Verulamium Museum. This is based around the excavations of...
Italy: UN agency expresses concern about burnt castle New York, 10 April (AKI) - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has...
Dear Members, Just a reminder about west coast events. November 7 2007 is the Mini Wars Fall Campaign held in Glendale. This is a great convention and I would...
This describes a left-handed archer. Unless it is a description of the carving, which would then appear reversed and show a right-handed archer on the seal. ...
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It should be the carving. The impression would show him right-handed. I always find seals among the most impressive pieces of ancient art. Small surface and...
Hi all, Like the tilee says I'm lookijng for [i]any[/i] unpainted mini's from the Testudo 28mm Medieval ranges, in particular Teutonic/Western Style Knights...
Hi Darrell I thought these were still available commercially? I'll check the various links I have & get back to you Cheers Mark [Non-text portions of this...
Mark, As far as I know Testudo have gone out of business. Certainly their website has dissapeared into the ether. Having said that, I'd certainly appreciate...
Not brand new but members may like to see this review. ... Subject: BMCR 2008.11.07: Paul Erdkamp, A Companion to the Roman Army From: "Bryn Mawr Classical...
Hi Darrell I found this with a Google websearch: Military Art S.r.l. - Italy ( www.militaryart.it ) has acquired the Testudo mark with all his rights. Â I am...
... Giuseppe Rava always held the rights and continues to do so. He just had two partners let him down with the marketing and manufacturing. None of the...
http://www.unil.ch/esag/page55140.html synopsises a 2008 report on the Tomb of the Erotes in Eretreia, on Euboia. The military interest of this tomb is its...
This is interesting. But I am curious; why were they in the tomb? Why would someone have a collection of these buried with them? Danny Weitz [Non-text...
ARCHAEOLOGY: NEW DISCOVERIES BY ITALIANS IN NEGEV DESERT (ANSAmed) - ROME, NOVEMBER 6 - A settlement from the transitional phase from Mesolithic to Neolithic,...
As usual Martin - your knowledge is most valuable & helpful. I'll certainly check out your Thirty Years War stuff - cheers Mark [Non-text portions of this...
... I was completely unaware of this. It's nice to see a good monograph written about this tomb, as I always found it quite interesting that it was a...
... Hardly new is it? nearly every book I've read on China makes the point that flooding/poor crops/other phenomena were considered to be signs that heaven had...
Great stuff! I have just been teaching a class on how statistics can mislead and here we go again. Argument from correlation, with a supposedly "obvious"...
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... I prefer the link between climate change and the decrease in piracy on the high seas. Logical answer to climate change, therfore, is ... ... Nik Gaukroger ...