SoA Forums

Due to another rift in the time-space continuum, my two Armenian kings finally had the opportunity to face each other. Tigranes the Lesser was supported by his Parthian patrons, whilst Artaxias had his Persian overlords to assist.

Short report of the battle below. Longer report (split into two parts) available on my website for those (especially in the UK) expecting a wet bank holiday weekend.

The oddity is that if the house burned because of hostile activity, they were arguably pretty incompetent or careless attackers if they left a horse and five sheep/goats to die rather than looting valuable livestock.

It's all codswallop, why bother?

I could carp on about it some more

Nice bit of archaeological science that.  What I did like was the authors don't speculate on why the building burned down or who might have been responsible.  I presume a press release did, however, and that got the CNN coverage.

Quote from: Denis Grey on Today at 07:49:25 AM

Quote from: Justin Swanton on Today at 06:13:28 AM....fish.

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 06:39:38 AMHalibut

I shall slap the pair of you.

Not your plaice.

Quote from: Justin Swanton on Today at 06:13:28 AM....fish.

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 06:39:38 AMHalibut

I shall slap the pair of you.

At work, have not had time to read it properly, but found this via an excited "Iron Age house burnt by Hannibal" story on CNN.  The study itself makes no mention of said Mr Barca, but hey, the authors got themselves a CNN headline 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fearc.2024.1347394/full

https://www.thecollector.com/athenian-empire-collapse/

Feels like ab exam question.

Discuss.......

Halibut