Archaeologist Links Ancient Palace, Ajax

[stevesarak]

I'm sure you've read this but here's a link from another site.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060330/ap_ ... jax_palace

[Susanne]

And here's the second article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 48,00.html

(Found it at Bronze Age Center)

[hoplite14gr]

Excavations expected to be completed in the next 5 years.
No exibits yet for the public.
Kind regards

[Ramesses II]

Quite an interesting article

[Dan Howard]

Ignore the mention of "bronze mail". It wasn't mail, it was scale (just like every other mention bronze age mail in various texts). I'm also unsure what Lolos means when he says that the find is unique. Bronze scales have been found all over the Aegean - Mycenae, Tiryns, Crete, Hissarlik (Troy), Pylos, and the Ulu Burun shipwreck. Even the cartouche stamp isn't unique. Stamping scale armour with the cartouche of the reigning Pharoah seems to have been fairly common. One example is the scale armour found in the tomb of Sheshonq.

[Anonymous]

There's a tendency among re-enactors and others to refer to "scale-mail" - which is an oddity, since mail means "mesh" or "network", but the worst is the term "plate-mail" applied, not to the combination plate-and-mail armours but to complete plate. It's no wonder there's confusion.

[hoplite14gr]

With the exception of a "Long" scale that by workmaship is considered Egyptian (it is not stamped) all other scales have no official state markins like those that cave beeb found in tools and pottery.
It is the first "marked" scale found in Greece.
It was either imported or belonged to mercenaries serving Ramses.
I do not know much of Egypt but I was told that it was Remses predesesor some Tuthmosis who establishes a sizable foreign bodygard of DANUNA (Danaoi?).
Kind regards

[Dan Howard]

There's a tendency among re-enactors and others to refer to "scale-mail" - which is an oddity, since mail means "mesh" or "network", but the worst is the term "plate-mail" applied, not to the combination plate-and-mail armours but to complete plate. It's no wonder there's confusion.

This essay briefly outlines how that confusion arose. Blame the Victorians.
http://www.knightsofveritas.org/materia ... ngmail.pdf