Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of ancient warfare answers with me, Murray,

your weekly fix of ancient warfare related material delivered by me as I attempt to answer a question

that one of you, viewers, readers or listeners has asked me, or writers in fact if you send me

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ask me a question in any form that you find, email, shouting in the street, someone who knows

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Carvansarai Publishers.com or indeed AWA at Carvansaripublishers.com. Right. This question is from

Demetrios and dear Mr. Darmel, hello, I hope this finds you well. I was curious as to how

exactly the scouting process worked in ancient

armies, although I'm sure it varied widely throughout different cultures and time periods.

Additionally, was there ever a commonly accepted type of soldier selected for scouting,

or did ancient commanders simply send whoever was available? Thanks, Dimitrios. Thank you,

Demetrios. I'll get to that in a moment. You, of course,

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the big podcast or you can listen to the ancient history podcast as well. Now, Demetrius's question. So, yes, indeed.

There's a combination of the very dissatisfying answers here.

One is, of course, we don't know.

One is, of course, yes, indeed, they do vary from culture to culture.

And in various different cases, we know less than we do about one of the others.

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