[Red Badger]

WMD’s in the 14th century BC!.....Weapons of Mammalian Diseases!...........

[samson1097]

Lies, all of it. The White Man used them first to wipe out the Native Americans. My public school teacher told me so. /s

[Ultra Sonic 007]

GGG ping?

Or military history ping?

[CholeraJoe]

A disease lasting 35-40 years, infecting humans and animals, causing fever, disabilities, and death, spreading via rodents aboard ships as well as donkeys, points to Francisella tularensis.

The rodents were merely pack mules for the arthropod vectors. Last time I counted there were 14 or 15 diseases associated with rodents. Absent microbial evidence, two or three of these could be to blame including plague and anthrax.

[null and void]

Hmmmmmm. Infected goats. Middle East.

Is anyone thinking what I’m thinking?

[Impugn]

My kid contracted Tularemia about a year and a half ago. Was one of only about forty people in the U.S. (at that point) to get it that year (better chance of getting hit by lightning - twice, I figure).

I can tell you it was a nasty, miserable experience. The stuff is so toxic that when they performed surgery on him to drain the nasty junk out of his neck, they had to do it wearing bio-hazard suits. He was on I.V. antibiotics nonstop and probably had to get a new "stick" once or twice a day (kept jamming up). In the end, it was sixteen days in the hospital - fortunately it was A.I. DuPont Childrens'...an excellent outfit.

It happened in June - the outpatient antibiotics they put him on after being discharged kept him inside, though (couldn't be exposed to sunlight). Crappy summer for the boy. Fortunately for him, he was back into shape and spirit by the start of football season (first week of August) and had a tremendous year.

The infectious diseases doctor actually had to report the case to the Department of Homeland Security - it truly is one of the bio-toxins that could be used by terrorists.

I cannot imagine how the ancients would have fared against this disease given the level of medical expertise they likely had. Dreadful.

[Hardcorps]

New study??? I know I am getting old but I do remember being taught about this while attending Biological/chemical warfare school in 1960. Oh well, studies show that studies show. SF

[Dr. Sivana]

I thought this was about the St. Louis Rams beat-up offensive line

[SunkenCiv]

One of those topics.

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[TASMANIANRED]

Instead of the Trojan Horse...The Hittite Goat.

[SunkenCiv]

Tom Slattery may be thrilled.

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The Tragic End of the Bronze Age: A Virus Makes History by Tom Slattery

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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

What makes this a particularly interesting study of warfare is the identity of the Arzawa. They were a confederation of related peoples in what later became Lydia in western Asia Minor. The northernmost kingdom of the Arzawans was Wilusa, located neat the Hellespont. At that time Greek still used the letter ‘W’, later dropped. There is a famous story about fighting in Wilusa, or Ilusa, It is remembered as ‘The Iliad’, and Wilusa was located on the Troad, who’s only big city in ancient times is now known as Troy.

[SunkenCiv]

ANE Digest Number 357
From: Banyai Michael Leonberg
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998

There is an Akagamunas (Akaiamunas?), apparently the Achaian king, appearing in the hethite correspondence. He was tentatively equivalated, I think by Forrer, with the homeric Agamemnon. Most of Forrers equation are today in low esteem, even if his name is still among the leader hethitologists. There are no objective grounds against this very equation but only natural skepsis. Should one hold his equation, one gets Akaiamunas/Akaiamenon >> Agamemnon. This as Idomeneos and Menelaos (variant of the lawagetas) would thus be just titles, no personal names.

Emil Forrer was correct. I was first turned onto this (I guess) by Michael Wood, who discusses Forrer and the Hattusas archive in his In Search of the Trojan War.

"These vague resemblances do not look like mere chance; Achaiwoi/Ahhiyawa; Alaksandus/Alexandros [Paris]; Wilusa/Wilios; Taruisa/Troia: each in isolation presents problems, but four resemblances is pressing coincidence too far." (p 207, italics in original)

Wood also mentions Tawagalawas which IMHO could be Achilles (Ta-Agalawas) and Etewokleweios which IMHO could be Eteocles.

[wildbill]

Knowing a little about the Mid Easterner’s love of his sheep, I wonder if you’d class these as deep penetration agents.

No doubt the purpose was to pull the wool over their eyes.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

The only certain cure for a sick ram is an embraceable ewe:

[demsux]

I thought this was about the St. Louis Rams