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A most interesting post! …..many thanks, Pauline

Absolutely ! …..moving a heavy object such as a large mosaic is evidently a complex and tricky job !!!

Another great post, Pauline. Many thanks...….

gepd wrote: ↑Tue May 15, 2018 10:42 am New study on the knee injury of the Tomb I skeleton: https://www.cureus.com/articles/11278-t ... -macedonia

Sorry, but this study by Bartsiokas et al is hopelessly wrong as this thread has demonstrated......

Sorry to hear that, Alexias...... :( though as I'm sure everyone knows, the vast majority of "ancient" objects sold are reproductions, sometimes carefully "aged" and worn, in order to pass a fake off as original, at a suitably inflated price. Yours is rather odd, because someone ...

Alexias wrote: This is soldiering, not just acting as a quarter-master. I fear you are falling into the trap described by Dr Reames, of treating his role as a lesser one -a quartermaster is generally a relatively senior soldier who merely supervises stores and distributes supplies and provisions. I ...

Jeanne wrote: Too many people misinterpret and freak out over the fact Hephaistion was primarily a diplomatic & logistics officer. Those inclined to dismiss him, including a lot of my colleagues, see him as unimportant and incapable because these are his roles. ......... BUT, the flipside are th...

Congratulations on your bargain find Alexias! I am distinctly envious :mrgreen: I'm no numismatist but I don't think your find is a 'Roman' coin at all (it is definitely a coin), but one of much more interest to members of this forum. It looks to me very much as if it is a Macedonian drachm ( which ...

Hi Alexias :) I have a complete year by year chronology of Philip's reign which should be of some assistance to you, if only to cross-check your timeline. I was going to PM it to you, but there doesn't seem to be a facility for adding attachments to PMs. If you PM me a normal email address, I'll sen...

Certainly that entry is badly in need of rewriting, for the reasons you mention and others. Philip assumed power in the Spring of 359 following the defeat and death of his brother Perdikkas III in battle against the Illyrians. From then until his death in 336, he carried out annual military campaign...

Jeanne wrote: Consider, the idea that anyone could READ the charred scrolls from Pompeii would have seemed like science fiction, but ... Of the 1,826 papyri to have been excavated, 340 are complete (or nearly complete), 970 are decayed but partly decipherable, and more than 500 are listed as fragmen...

Paralus wrote: The Macedonians did not use sarisa in a technical sense but actually applied the word in general to "spears". I'd entirely agree. It is most likely that "sarisa" in Macedonian dialect simply meant generically any 'long spear', and that it was the Greeks who adopted...

That is not the easiest question to answer! It has been the subject of debate over many years. Not only do our half dozen ancient sources all offer different figures in cubits/pekhos, but the actual length of the cubit varied from city to city as well!! With the aid of archaeology and testing recons...

4000 years ago ? Pre-Minoan? That's almost as old as the Great Pyramid !!

News to me......thanks for posting this

Well, I hope you are fortunate enough to get there.......in which case take copious notes and photos, so you may share and enlighten us all upon your return !

Alas, there would be too much work involved to produce such an article (book?), which would take a prodigious amount of time, which I don't have. I fear also that it would be a poor representation of Agesilaos' debating skills, since he presented no evidence for his views in this thread, and his arg...