It was discovered while they were digging for a water pipeline, I believe! Getting buried under a meter of dirt went a great deal towards preserving it over the years.
Explanation: Alexander's army famously mutinied near modern-day India because they were tired of campaigning and wanted to go home and see their families again. Macedonian soldiery were professionals, but in a system that operated under traditional warlord's logic - you go home when the campaigns end.
Rome, on the other hand, eventually developed a professional system in which troops were constantly being rotated in and out of service, with a (more or less) definite start and end to one's term of service. 20-25 years is a lot, but it's also certain - the next campaign isn't going to take you away from your home province indefinitely. As such, with the older, more likely to be exhausted soldiery being regularly dismissed to a pleasant (and paid) retirement, and the newer, hungry-for-loot-and-glory troops being constantly brought in, even during campaigning, the Roman Legions maintained a high level of enthusiasm for going on new campaigns, in most cases.
Unfortunately, sometimes this led to the Legions deciding in times of calm that THEIR general would be a better (read: more enriching) Emperor than whoever had the office at the time! Pros and cons!
Explanation: Sherman for his memetic love of fire, and Grant because he actually couldn't eat steak if it wasn't sufficiently well-cooked (at least later in life), since the red juices reminded him of blood. Poor fellow.
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
Israel must be stopped because it is the one currently committing genocide, and the only one with the realistic capacity to do so at the moment. Not because Israel is the only one which desires to do so.
"We are looking forward to two important things, which are within sight: The first is the cleansing of Palestine of the filth of the Jews, and their uprooting from it, Allah willing. This is within sight. Four years, my brothersโฆ By 2022, we will be rid of themโฆ The second thing is the establishment of the Caliphate, after the nation has been healed of its cancer โ the Jews โ Allah willingโฆ
โIt is unacceptable that the Jews control some of the Arab states โ their regimes, their armies, and their security agencies โ while the peoples remain oppressed. Oh peoples of the Arab and Islamic nation, oh Palestinian people, you possess a concealed power that you can detonate in the faces of the Jews and the hypocrites. We expect another Arab Spring from you, with new characteristics โ a second Arab Spring, which will focus on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Allah willing. We are your embers and your fuel, Allah willing.โ
Fathi Hamad, high ranking member of Hamasโs political bureau, 2018
โThere was a series of 120 deportations of Jews from Europe. This was because they betrayed the people among whom they lived, and worked against the interests of the societies that sheltered them. They betrayed those societies, in which they lived as spies. For example, they spied against the Persians for the Byzantines. These [Jewish] groups corrupted the societies in which they lived through usury, the worship of money, extreme miserliness, and bribery. Those nations considered them to be anti-Christian. The [Jews] lived in Europe according to the principle of rejection of non-Jews, whom they call Gentiles. They embraced the notion of the Jews being the victims throughout history, in order to take over Palestine.โ
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, one of the founders of Hamas, 2017
โ[R]emoving the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle because it appears in the Book of Allah.โ
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, one of the founders of Hamas, 2018
โIf we look back at history, we see that [the Jews] were abhorred in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. This is also true of the times of the Assyrians, the Romans, and the Prophet Muhammad. They betrayed him. They were treacherous against him, and he expelled them from the Arabian Peninsula. Even Hitler hated them, loathed them, and got rid of them. However, everything people say about massacres and Holocaust โ these are all lies. Hitler may have hated them, but it was because of their deeds and crimes. Hitler was no less of a criminal than them.โ
Marwan Abu Ras, Hamas MP, 2019
โThose [cowards] who quake with fear, those who cooperate and collaborate [with Israel], those who normalize relations with the occupation will be gathered with the apes and pigs in the Hellfire. Do you know who the apes and pigs are? They are the Jews who Allah transformed into apes and pigs.โ
Ismail Radwan, Hamas Minister of Religious Endowments, 2018
โOver is the time Hamas spent discussing recognizing Israel. Now Hamas will discuss when we will wipe out Israel,โ
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip
When Sinwar would tell him [Ehud Yaari, a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times] Israel must be destroyed and insist there was no place for Jewish people in Palestine, โhe would joke, โMaybe weโll make an exception of youโโ.
โWe cannot, in exchange for money or projects, give up Palestine and our weapons. We will not give up the resistanceโฆ We will not recognize Israel, Palestine must stretch from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.โ
Ismail Haniyeh, current leader/chairman of Hamas, in 2020
โ[Allah] transformed them into filthy, ugly animals like apes and pigs because of the injustice and evil they had brought about.โ Al-Regeb also prayed for the ability to โget to the necks of the Jews.โ
Hamad Al-Regeb, an official Sheikh (elder official) of Hamas, 2023
โTherefore, we are convinced that if a total conflict begins, the airspace and seaports of this entity will be shut down, and they will not be able to live without electricity, water, and communications.โ
Saleh Al-Arouri, now-deceased Deputy Chairman of Hamas, 2023
Baldur's Cage
History of the Poohnic Wars
Baldur's High
IS this still the Ship of Theseus?
Jimmy Space and his favorite son
More ruins along the Roman-era road of the Via Flaminia
Some unearthed remains of the Via Flaminia, a major road, in Italy.
"WAR! What is it good for? Enriching the legions!"
Roman and Carthaginian infantry about to clash, Second Punic War
Grant and Sherman liked their steaks the same way
When you lose a WW2 wargame as the Americans
Aussie troops showing off a captured German stahlhelm, Belgium, WW1, 1917?
Athenian decadrachm silver coin, ~467 BCE
Five riders, Mongolia 1911 (piefed.social)
Photography by Oscar Mamen, via the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo.
Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel's use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI...
Ceremonial miner's axe | Germany, Saxony - 1662