• Made of wood
• Decorated with feather crests representing rank
• Embellished with gold, jewels, and animal skins
Armor vests, cuirasses, shields
• Cotton quilted with feathers or cotton
• Reinforced with animal hides, wood, or reeds or woven into a rigid form
Armguards and legguards
• Leather, rawhide, cotton, reed (used to protect exposed skin on arms and legs during battle)
Big Ḥalaf , also Written Tell Halaf , archaeological site of ancient Mesopotamia, on the upper reaches of the Khābur River in Near modern Raʾs al-ʿAyn to the NE Syria . Here is the first find of a neolithic culture, the glazed through ceramic is marked with geometric and an
Charles-Maurice de, Prince of Bénévent (Paris, February 13, 1754 - id., May 17, 1838). Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, commonly known as Talleyrand, was a French politician and diplomat, born February 2, 1754 in Paris, died in the same city on May 17, 1838. Heir to a large family, lame, he
The naval battle of the Dalmatian channels was one of the few conflicts in the sea element during the Serbo-Croat war. The conflict lasted three days and took place on November 14-16, 1991. The Serb-Croat conflict has been going on since the early Middle Ages. It peaked before and during World War I
We do not know if she would look like Lena Hadley, the actress who played her in the movie 300 , but we do know that the Spartan Gorgo has not gone down in history only because she was the wife of the hero Leonidas but also because she was the only woman from that Greek city who, in addition to be