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editor at ancient-warfare.com. Hi everyone. It's been a long time since we last had our ancient

warfare podcast. This time we have issue 4-2, blockade and assault, ancient seeds warfare as our topic.

This issue was published just before the summer and dealt with, very surprisingly. Seed

warfare, very encompassing topic for the ancient world. And I'm sure we've got lots of leads

going out from that issue to discuss today with me virtually is our team of

experts and I'd like to welcome today Michael Taylor back from Kosovo Murray Dam in Australia

and Lindsay Powell who's I gather just submitted his book to Pen and Sword for publishing

in the spring of next year.

Congratulations on that.

Thank you very much.

So let's start off the discussion.

Maybe we can discuss the way siege warfare fits in the entire range of warfare in the ancient world.

We tend to look at it as sort of a separate thing.

We think of campaigns and battles in the field, maybe battles at sea,

and then sieges are sort of a separate territory where maybe nothing happens.

But if you look at it up close and one example is

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