Denying Thermopylae - taken from the Newsfeed section

[Hoplitesmores]

I ve changed some stuff in the article so we can have a laugh and another perspective.


According to Polybius, thousands of greeks were killed at Pydna. Where are the remains of these warriors? Of course, not all corpses are always salvaged, either because the exact site is indeterminate, or because a single corpse is being sought. The location that is given by Polybius is a relatively precise location, and is not in a desolate or extremely deep part of an mountain. It is close to land, and not too remote. So what has been found at the site? Not much. Apart from an occasional spearhead or two from the ancient world, the vast graveyard of hoplites one expects to find there is notably absent, even with today's complex item salvage technologies.

How about Pydna? What has been recovered there? Apart from some greek spearheads, not much else. Again, considering the very specific site of battle and mountainous terrain that allows for only a small strip of flat land, the search area is relatively small. Furthermore, it is unlikely that it would conceal the following from the prying eyes of modern archaeologists:

"At this place, there is a large lacuna, in which Livy must have described how the skirmish increased in seriousness. One contingent of Roman allies, the Paelignians, suffered heavily. King Perseus now ordered his army to prepare for battle. The Romans were already prepared."

Twenty thousand greeks died at Pydna, of which nineteen thousand were buried in mass graves at that very site by Cornelius , according to Polybius. There are supposedly mass graves of 19,000 dead warriors there, somewhere in that narrow mountain pass. Archaeologists have been able to find a few arrowheads from that incident, but the colossal cemetery has somehow managed to elude discovery.

The conspicuous absence of thousands of dead and the mass graves of 19,000 dead greek warriors sheds serious doubt not just on the details of Polybius' story, but upon its entire foundation.

There you have it Pydna never happened! The roman empire didnt exist and we are in the Matrix.