SOME REMARKS ABOUT BATTLE AXES FROM COLLECTIONS OF HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM OF PRHAOVA COUNTYbattle axesweaponryIX-X centuriesLower DanubeCiupercă,Bogdan
agriculture and a reduction in the opening up of new land. The burial in high-status graves of finely polished, perforated stone and jade tools such as axes and adzes with no sign of edge wear indicates the symbolic role such emblems of work had come to play by the 4th and 3rd ...
Armed with swords, bows and arrows, axes and spears, the Trung sisters and their army stormed 65 Chinese-run citadels. They became national heroines. Read more See MoreRead more about Women’s HistorySign up for Video of the Day Get a FREE featured video sent right to your inbox, every ...
The enemy forces advanced, led by a giantwar elephantand their fierce leader, brandishing ascimitar. Aric and his comrades stood firm, theiraxesswinging as they fought valiantly. Suddenly, amacewas thrown, smashing against the ground, creating chaos am...
effort by feasting on the heads and thoraxes of the early morning hatches of caddis flies caught by the bankside, when the river was alive with feasting little fish, back when the major general was still in his bed oversleeping and dreaming of giving, or of receiving, a damn good spanking...
the first weaponry designed by humans is believed to be the throwing spear. Examples of carved spears have been dated to at least 400,000 years ago. Evidence shows that these were adapted to include fire-hardened points 150,000 years later. Archaeologists also have unearthed stone axes from at...
On this all-new competition show, the best bladed weapon-makers in the country go head-to-head building everything from Viking battle axes to Samurai swords to Indian claw daggers. There will be new weapons and contestants every week, and stunning tests of their creations. In each stand-alo...
The first blow was dealt the detested structure by two Government commissioners; then a mob of some hundreds threw themselves upon it, win pickaxes and levers; in five days not a trace of the colossal fabric was to be seen, and a cross twenty feet high, adorned with the royal arms, ...
wore conical helmets and chain-mail vests and carried five-foot axes in addition to metal shields. The remaining Saxons were poorly trained militiamen known as fyrds, who were basically draftees levied from the shires. Many of the fyrds, and most of the housecarls, were exhausted from their...
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