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As anticipated, a most interesting post, Agesilaos ! Did this information come from Engels, someone else, or has your opisometer been working overtime ? :wink: The problem with this sort of table is that it gives a rather misleading impression of precision. Xenophon for the most part quoted his marc...

Agesilaos wrote: ....I will just say that an army on the march is not at all like a Dutch fun run. The problems of getting 40,000+ people to cover a long distance in a day down narrow roads is the same - the difficulty today in Holland being that only the narrow roads are available [ see post], and ...

I think we have to accept that the forced march occurred over the stated distance but must doubt the troop numbers and those elephants; You still have doubts ? I thought we had established on the other thread that tens of thousands can walk those distances daily for many days at a time. After all, ...

Another very interesting post, Pauline. Please keep them coming !! Another ancient glue, apart from resin from trees and flour-and-water, was pitch ( spearheads and suchlike were usually fastened onto the shaft with pitch, which was also used in ship-building). The most common glue is one that is st...

Many Yuletide thanks from me too.....You can in fact read it online, but need to log in to download it successfully.

Agesilaos wrote: The trouble with the 'supporting circumstantial evidence' is that the Grand tumulus is not the original mound. So the people who wish us to believe the rotting corpse of a king would be taboo want us to accept that the corpses of traitors are not. They could equally well be Gallic p...

Agesilaos wrote: Hammond is to be congratulated that he can date the fragmentary vessels of tomb I, when the complete ones of Tomb II are inconclusive, yep, sarcasm. Actually, it is Andronikos' datings Hammond refers to, and his expertise in the field is pretty formidable, considering his record. He...

Sorry, yes, I'd been putting that post together in bits over several days, and while about to finish it got caught up in other things, and when I came back to the post, thinking I had finished it, hurriedly posted it! I had meant to add: " Hammond's paper has many other interesting details, not...

Prompted by this thread, I have been doing a little digging, and discovered some quite important details about the Tombs not generally known. The late N.G.L. Hammond was fortunate enough to visit the tombs in the company of the excavator, the late M Andronikos, shortly after it was excavated and aga...

see below.... Does not logic dictate that you too accept the 'balance of probability', however reluctantly ?? I'm afraid that you have misunderstood my position. I have not and do not object to anyone preferring the Low Chronology "on the balance of probability". I have only objected to t...

Taphoi wrote :- .....but in order to make this clear I would welcome your specifying exactly who has declared the high-low chronology debate to be over and on what authority? “Community opinion” is rather vague and the eclectic chronology is just a best guess from unsatisfactory evidence. I would su...

Hi Andrew, Taphoi wrote: I am confident that you did not intend that your comment should be seen as an attempt to stifle debate,... I don't see why anyone would see it that way.....rather it is an attempt to move the debate along, and not see it degenerate into flat assertions of the Monty Pythonesq...

Given your hypothesis that Tomb 1 is that of Philip II, and that Cleopatra had but one child , namely Europe, you will be interested to learn that whilst Tomb 1 was "empty" in the sense that it had been thoroughly pillaged in antiquity, contrary to what is stated above it did contain scatt...

postscript: The "barrel vault introduced after Alexander" point doesn't seem to hold up. The Rhomais Tomb, a.k.a 'Eurydike' tomb, and firmly dated by inscribed pottery to 343-340 BC is of barrel vault construction ( and larger than the Philip Tomb). Similar salt cellars have now been found...

I read this a while back and what stood out for me was that he did not understand the true conclusion of his work which was not that the body could not be Arrhidaios as he states, but only that you cannot tell from the bones whether they are from a wet or dry cremation and that the bones of Philip ...