Bio Warfare Rears Its Head- The Ancient world USED IT!!!(MUST READ!)

Newsday ^ | January 13, 2004 | By Bryn Nelson

[SunkenCiv]

Cyclops Myth Spurred by One-Eyed Fossils?
National Geographic NEWS ^ | 02/05/03 | Hillary Mayell
Posted on 02/08/2003 8:01:23 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/839013/posts

Bees, snakes, germs - any weapon in a pinch
The Vancouver Sun | 11/29/2003 | Jay Currie
Posted on 11/30/2003 7:12:18 AM PST by TrebleRebel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1031027/posts

American troops launch 'Exorcist' tour at ancient temple
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 01/04/04 | Colin Freeman
Posted on 01/03/2004 3:12:38 PM PST by Pokey78
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051064/posts

...Hatra's defensive record against invading superpowers, which involved using early forms of chemical and biological weapons. Naptha bombs and jars of desert scorpions were poured over the outer wall to successfully repel Roman invaders , according to the classical folklorist Adrienne Mayor... The city was left in ruins after it was sacked and burnt by Sapor, the Sassanian Persian king, in AD 241. The impressive temple complex dedicated to several Hatrene gods, the chief of which was the sun god Shamash, lies in the very centre of its limestone and gypsum walls.

[SunkenCiv]

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[bannie]

I believe they catapulted "plague-plagued" bodies onto the ships of enemies.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #4

Chinese launched human waste into enemy fortress via their cannons, to do the same.

[RightWhale]

Apparently the use of fire by the Israeli army is okay, but the use of bio and poison is not. Self-imposed, based on their own idea of ethics in war.

[Renfield]

The density of Quartz (primary constituent of most beach sand) is about 2.63 (grams/cubic centimeter). That means it's 2.63 times as dense as water. Think how well water holds heat, and then consider a much denser material. That stuff, heated to, say, about 800 degrees (which is about all that's practical using the method described) would cause horrible burns. Ouch.

[Question_Assumptions]

Why are people always so suprised that human beings were also human beings thousands of years ago?

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

... and later some who were besieging cities used corpses of those who died from the plague; placed the bodies in a catapult and adios target city.

So with all this evidence of the tactics of the ancient Iraqis, where were the nukes?

[FreedomCalls]

They also probably clumped the sand together somehow (is it naturally sticky at those temperatures?) and tossed potato-sized clods at the enemy. The clods would have broken up on impact and showered the opponent with burning sticky sand particles.

[itsamelman]

Is the sand thing feasible? Melting temp of sand is ~ 1500 C so the temp must have been less than that. How far can you catapult sand anyway? In any case I would expect rapid thermal loss from small particles moving through air making such a weapon ineffective. This could be an interesting project.

[FreedomCalls]

And both the British and Germans accused each other of pouring motor oil down the water wells they dug in Libya each time Libya changed hands throughout the war. Neither realized that the oil in the wells was due to natural seeps in the area. The huge oil fields under Libya weren't discovered until after the war. It's interesting to speculate how the course of the war would have changed if the Germans had realized before the war that there were these huge oil fields in Libya.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I seem to remember someone during the early outbreak of the black death was besieging a city, and one of the things they did was lob heads of those who had died from the plague...I think this was in Eastern Europe somewhere...or where Europe and Asia meet...Was one of those things, the implications were, that helped spread the plague westward.

I haven't read the article since the 70s, so my memory of combatants and who did what is somewhat vague...

[SunkenCiv]

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