Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare podcast.

With me today are Mark DeSantis, Michael, Marie Daum, and I am Jasper Ortiz, and I'm the editor

of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

In the recording booth is sound engineer Angus Wallace.

And today we're going to be talking about the latest issue of the magazine,

Issue 164, which is all about the campaigns of Pharaoh took Moses the third.

Well, we already agreed that we were not able to date his reign very precisely so we'll just keep it to

15th century BC that that covers most offered uh period we don't want to get into the high and

the low calendar no let's not that that's that's that's a good way to get everybody to go cross

side very quickly and it is you know at least I am, it is after 11 p.m.

So I'm already at the point of going cross-eyed anyway.

Yeah, going back far further than than we normally do in ancient warfare to what has been called the first recorded battle.

The first recorded battle.

At which point everybody goes, but the Sumerians, yes, plenty of battles, probably

no idea about any detail whatsoever.

And we are talking of Medito, correct?

Yes.

So I think the fascinating thing about the first recorded battle is the fact that...

Video, that would be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Video evidence from, well... the fascinating thing about the first recorded video battle is the fact that video that video that video

evidence from from from the 15th century BC but the it is because we do have multiple sources

for the battle which is unusual and normally we talk about the annals and the issue has a

transcription of the annals translation by Brested.

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