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

My name is Jasper Orthaus.

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.

And with me today are Mark Dissentis, Lindsay Powell, Mark McAfree, and assistant editor,

Murray Dom.

And as a change of the usual topics, we thought we discussed some ancient news,

because there is actually a lot of it out there all the time. We tend to look at our literary

sources only, except in the next issue, ancient warfare, where we have a long article,

which combines history, geography, and some attempts at archaeology and see, to see

what that gets us, in this case, the answer is a bit disappointing, perhaps, but it's still

an interesting exercise to go through it. Murray knows what I'm talking about.

No spoilers.

Usually last minute drama.

But yeah.

But archaeology does add a lot to what we know about the ancient world.

The problem is always to try and fit what you find in the ground with the sources.

The question, can you fit it?

Can you do anything with it?

Can it be combined with anything else at all?

Or is it a reference to something that we didn't know about before?

And what does that tell us?

So there is a lot of news out there.

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