Ancient Warfare Blog

Podcast episode 96: Warriors on Wheels

This entry was posted on January 20, 2020 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Suggested products Ancient Warfare XIII.4 Ancient Warfare XIII.4 with chariot warfare in antiquity Until the arrival of the chariot, warfare had been an exclusively infantry-based... Read more

Podcast episode 95: Contests and rituals around ancient battles

This entry was posted on December 19, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

With Jasper called away to a funeral abroad at the last minute, Murray acts as MC with Marc DeSantis, Mark McCaffery and Lindsay Powell joining... Read more

Cedo alteram - Know your centurion

This entry was posted on December 6, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

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Podcast episode 94: The Rise of Septimius Severus

This entry was posted on November 18, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Ancient Warfare issue XIII.3 is here, and the team have come together to discuss the meteoric rise of Rome's African Emperor, the ruthlessly striving Septimius... Read more

Themes for Volume XIV

This entry was posted on November 6, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Yesterday I forwarded the publication plan to our distributor. It consists of a fairly punishing schedule with a new issue every 7.5 weeks. Obviously, this... Read more

Podcast episode 93: Experimental archaeology and reenactment

This entry was posted on October 11, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

In this episode, the team discusses the benefits, downsides, biases and other features of experimental and archaeology. Does it help us understand how ancient soldiers... Read more

Ancients wargaming - attempt 328

This entry was posted on October 9, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

I'm not exactly sure why, but my optimistically announced reboot of ancients wargaming seems to have taken the 'failboat' into the sunset. I could blame Guy for running from one wargaming project to another. Read more

Podcast episode 92: geography in warfare

This entry was posted on September 19, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Ancient Warfare podcast episodes this month are, apparently, like those proverbial buses: none for a while and then two come together. In the latest episode... Read more

Podcast episode 91: Tropes!

This entry was posted on September 11, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

A huge number of tropes about the ancient world float around in our collective consciences. This episode, the full podcast team, Myke Cole, Murray Dahm... Read more

An ode to helmets

This entry was posted on August 28, 2019 by Jasper Oorthuys.

Negau helmet, now in Berlin I'm not an archaeologist - trained as a historian instead - but somehow my thoughts easily turn to material culture... Read more