07-07-2010, 12:25 PM
Immortal wrote:
Err..rr..rrr.....you should look more closely !!
hock: Despite the fact that most Persians have their head coverings pulled over their lower faces, virtually ALL the Persians have facial hair visible, ranging from a youth's "bum fluff" on his upper lip, to Darius' obvious full moustache and beard !! 
D lol:
...and as to Alexander's charger, the literary sources tell us that Alexander didn't always ride Bucephalus, and that Macedonian Companion cavalry each had a string of anything up to a dozen horses.....and Persians didn't always use white horses either !!
As to "several iron Tube-and-Yoke corselets" in northern Greece and Thrace, I wonder if you mean ones covered in iron scales? I would be surprised if several like those in the "Philip" tomb had been found....hock: hock:
Quote:How come none of the Persians have facial hair?
Err..rr..rrr.....you should look more closely !!
hock: Despite the fact that most Persians have their head coverings pulled over their lower faces, virtually ALL the Persians have facial hair visible, ranging from a youth's "bum fluff" on his upper lip, to Darius' obvious full moustache and beard !! D lol: ...and as to Alexander's charger, the literary sources tell us that Alexander didn't always ride Bucephalus, and that Macedonian Companion cavalry each had a string of anything up to a dozen horses.....and Persians didn't always use white horses either !!
As to "several iron Tube-and-Yoke corselets" in northern Greece and Thrace, I wonder if you mean ones covered in iron scales? I would be surprised if several like those in the "Philip" tomb had been found....
hock: hock:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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