22 August – On this day
Charles I King of England called the round heads, the Parlimentarians, traitors and raised the royal standard at Nottingham. He managed to assemble about 2000 cavalry and a smaller force of infantry before going on to assemble a larger force in the weeks to come.
Routine drain and sewage maintenance has led to the discovery of three Iron Age skeletons by maintenance workers working on an 18th century cottage. the bones have been dated to between 800 and 600 BC.
Hugh Jackman may star in a new production of Homer’s Odyssey set to be made by Lionsgate, no release date has yet been set.
The Dendra Panapoly
The Evolution of Armour page has been updated with an entry on the Dendra Panapoly from the Mycenaean period (15th Cent. BC).
This is the first post to this page and the start of a regular feature with different armours added each time.
Some authors have long held the belief that neolithic peoples were somehow living an idyllic and peaceful life free of war and strife. Continue reading “Neolithic Farm life not free of conflict”
It has long been rumoured that in the last days of WWII the Nazi’s who had assembled a vast treasure including 300 tons of gold brought a heavily armoured train to Wroclaw Poland. In May 1945 this train left and has not been seen since. Now two men have come forward claiming they know where the train is and will reveal the location if they are given 10% of the treasure.
Reports from a number of sources indicate that 82 year old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad has been beheaded by Islamic State for refusing to reveal the location of hidden artefacts from the site of Palmyra. The Syrian archaeologist had devoted much of his life to this site
It is a sad thing for a life to be lost in such tragic circumstances defending the shared cultural heritage many of us love, all of us at History Bytes send our condolences to his family and colleagues.
Robert Krulwich, an author for the National Geographic, asked himself what name was the first recorded in the historical record. What he found was a debate between scholars that argue for one of two contenders.
This image comes from Trajan’s column and depicts the personification of Victory inscribing the name Dacia onto a shield to be hung on the victory trophy depicted to the right of the scene signifying the end of the first Dacian war. The victory monument on the right of the scene shows a tree trunk covered in the armour and weapons of the defeated enemy which can tell us a lot about the weapons and armour used by the Dacians throughout these conflicts.
20 August 1860 – On this day
Australian explorers Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills departed from Royal Park, Melbourne to commence their doomed expedition to cross the Australian continent from South to North.
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On the 19th of August 43 BC Octavian, later to become Augustus the first emperor of Rome, compelled the Roman Senate to elect him Consul of Rome.
An interesting albeit somewhat older documentary that examines fighter design arms race between the US and USSR from the creation of the Russia MIG 15, one of the most prolific fighters ever, manufactured in 4 countries and used by at least 18 to the MIG 29 and tracks the US developments from the US F-86 Sabre which was used by 26 different airforces to the F-18 Hornet.
Continue reading “Review – MIG vs America, Cold War in the Skies”
The evolution of body armour is a fascinating subject from the stylistic changes in Roman armour to the development of modern bullet proof vests, sometimes the failures tell us as much as the successes do. Max Virtus has written a really interesting article on one of those failures that never made it to the battlefield in his article about the World War I Brewster body armour.
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