| oldhans117 | 09 Nov 2009 1:46 p.m. PST |
link A lot of comments on the logistics of marching armies across a desert, pretty neat. |
aecurtis  | 09 Nov 2009 1:48 p.m. PST |
Wow. Deja vu all over again. |
| Grizwald | 09 Nov 2009 2:22 p.m. PST |
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| oldhans117 | 09 Nov 2009 2:35 p.m. PST |
I search for Persian so I missed that. |
| Connard Sage | 09 Nov 2009 2:45 p.m. PST |
Another vanished Persian army? As Oscar nearly said, "to lose one army may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness" |
| floating white bear | 09 Nov 2009 3:22 p.m. PST |
Oh! I thought you said varnished! I though maybe somebody found 1000 pts of WRG or something. Rob. |
| Dr Mathias | 09 Nov 2009 5:37 p.m. PST |
Yet another reason to trust in Herodotus! Awesome find. |
| Rhino Co | 09 Nov 2009 6:46 p.m. PST |
How would you like to be that American tourist who bought the sword? |
| Monstro | 10 Nov 2009 2:44 a.m. PST |
How would you like to be that American tourist who bought the sword?
Who probably went on to clean it with brasso and use it as a paper knife or something with no idea how old it may have been. |
| Whatisitgood4atwork | 10 Nov 2009 3:25 a.m. PST |
There are right now 10,000 American and Canadian tourists looking at their souvenir swords and hoping. At least 9,999 will be disappointed. Though at least 10 will try to sell the 'real' one on ebay. |
 BigRedBat  | 10 Nov 2009 6:28 a.m. PST |
A dagger, some arrowheads and a few beads and a mass grave don't necessarily a missing army make. And I wonder, how might the bodies have ended up in a mass grave? Perhaps the survivors, if any, did it? Simon |
| Old Glory | 10 Nov 2009 7:14 a.m. PST |
I was just wondering what had happened to them !!! Russ |
| brevior est vita | 16 Nov 2009 8:18 a.m. PST |
Some much-needed words of caution on this 'new' story: link |
| JJartist | 16 Nov 2009 8:32 a.m. PST |
Isn't this what they were searching or in the English Patient? I too will be more impressed when some real Persian artifacts are found and shown off. This all sounds like a bunch of smoke and mirrors too promote a movie.
JJ |
| Steve Holmes 11 | 20 Nov 2009 4:09 a.m. PST |
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