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Some Illustrations of Ancient Siege Machines
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The British Library has made some colour photos of illustrations from a sixteenth century manuscript of ancient artillery texts online. If you want to see what scholars like Schramm and Marsden had to work with, and why they paid much more attention to the text than the illustrations, you can have a look here.
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I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
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Some Illustrations of Ancient Siege Machines - by Sean Manning - 03-24-2014, 06:04 PM

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