Hello everyone.

Welcome to an episode of the ancient warfare magazine podcast.

I'm Murray Dam.

I'm the assistant editor.

And joining me today are Mark McCaffrey, Mark DeSantis and Lindsay Powell.

Now, today's episode, you'll see that the cat's away, so we're going to play.

And we're going to play about the latest issue of the magazine, issue 102, which is on The Helmet, which obviously is a wide-ranging topic across all ancient warfare from its very earliest to its very latest times.

Made to Save Your Skull was the subtitle of the magazine.

Helmots in the ancient world is the topic.

So lots to discuss.

We've got questions from viewers to bring up.

Anyone got any preliminary comments about any helmet issue that they wanted to.

There is Lindsay posted a link about the fact that only yesterday a new helmet was discovered,

a bronze helmet of the Hittite Empire, which is fascinating and very rare.

So it's wonderful to see.

It missed a magazine by weeks, but it's very cool to see,

you know, new helmet discoveries being newsworthy. But we'll be reporting on it in issue 53.

There you go. There you go. Nice, nice, nice, nice. Let's have a look at some of these questions

that we've been asked. Ryan has asked the questions. Let's start with this one.

Strange thought, but do most examples of helmets, of which there are a few, come from

burials or memorials?

If so, do they represent the least effective or desirable helmets since their wearers

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