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...The multiple head wounds on three of the hoplites’ skulls The nature of the wounds on the Theban dead provides some evidence in this debate. The sharp force trauma wounds on the skulls from Chaironeia are consistently on the top of the head. The angle of all but one of the injuries suggests the ...

thank you for a brilliant summary. does anyone here know the diameter of the cornelwood shaft of the lances / spears / xystons used in Alexander's army? I went to see the statue last year, but I was somehow not convinced it is Alexander (he looks too young and I don't know of any other portrait wher...

Chris, I can't place your unpaved road on Google maps. The road that cuts straight across the mouth of the valley appears to be paved across the river and railway (as far as the images go). At the river, I can't make out if there is a dam, weir, or floodgates near or under the bridge, but flooding ...

Paralus, how lovely to see you here again! The Greeks intended a defensive battle. To that end they far more likely plugged the valley at its western end. Here the Greek line is in blue and the Macedonian in Red (the MAcedonian burial mound is the red spot). Escape routes over the Kerata pass are sh...

Alexias wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 6:20 pm I could post a link to this thread if you like.

of course, please do!

It would be good if you could share this on the academia post, and the photo of the site. I wouldn't know how to do that - and I'm not an academic so I'd feel a bit out of place there. but AIUI, this forum is public, so a link to the thread here should make it accessible. maybe we'll even get a few...

Thank you for your question In the case of the the Kasta monument ,various sculptures have been found during the excavation (PDF "The sculpures of the Kastas tumulus "'.A.Corso , Academia ) The professor A.Corso identified them because of the technique and because of the type of marble ,a...

Thanks for this. I thought I had seen that image before but couldn't remember where from. I think the paper is right to be a bit cautious about the Amphipolis tomb. That we have not had a publication giving the full results of the excavation after 8 years is troubling as we still not had any defini...

thanks for posting this. I had no idea how much discussion there is over where exactly the lines were. What is interesting to me that everyone seems to agree that the battle must have been fought within a diamond shaped area defined by four landmarks: two low mountain ranges, the graves of the Theba...

so sorry the link didn't work. I changed the access settings. try again. if it still doesn't work I'll think of something else.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Chris, I was looking for the URL as this project seemed very interesting (and massive). Do you still have working links? If yes, would you please share them? Hopefully, you have images as this project seems like an expression of admiration, persistence, and dedication. Thank you. thanks for asking....

it's a hefty tome and it's good that its been made easily accessible. but its a long read and before embarking on that, could someone more knowledgable than me put this text into context? what, if anything can be taken from it? is it a reference work, should I read it cover to cover?

interesting. I googled the original (English translation only, as I don't speak Greek or Latin) https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:phi,0978,001:35:36 the translation says "prince". I can't imagine Pliny referring to Alexander as a "prince" after his ascensi...

Hephaiston was cremated, so we will never know, but I'll chip in as someone who spent 40 years in emergency rooms: remember if this happened today, Hephaiston would be bluelighted to the nearest ER, just like thousands of others each year. For ER docs, a case like his is bread & butter stuff. so...

... #9 that you put in Old German as "Kamenny-Most". It is actually in Russian not in old German. ;) It means "stone bridge". Maybe at the time of his travels there was a stone bridge or it was a local name for the place. Thanks so much for this, I uploaded the corrected file. Y...