For over four-hundred years Sparta was the dominant land military power of the known world. From at least 800 BC to about 371 B.C. the Spartan army was seemingly unbeatable on the battle field. Sparta was the… Continue reading
I remember back in college, during literature class reading a poem by Robert Frost called the Mending Wall. In this poem, what I derived; that the old man concerned with mending the wall was a backward savage, mainly because of his stated… Continue reading
My next venture into the realm of Ancient Junk will be the Great Sphinx of Egypt, which is on the Giza plateau next to the pyramids and is usually viewed in photos with the great pyramid in the back ground.… Continue reading
On the island of Pharaohs just a few miles off the coast of Alexandria Egypt, stood a 450 ft lighthouse made of cut stone. This lighthouse could project light over 29 miles out to sea, a nice trick since this was the… Continue reading
In the year 399 BC, Plato`s teacher and mentor Socrates was accused of the crime of corrupting the youth of Athens, a very serious charge, that if convicted, Socrates would receive the death penalty. From what we know of this… Continue reading
Sometime in the 10th century BC the Israelites under the leadership of their first king, who was called Saul, finds themselves in constant combat with Isreal`s deadliest enemy the Philistines.
The Philistines were a people of mostly Cretan Greek… Continue reading
What Happened to the Trojan horse?
All throughout history from the time of Homer to the present the story of the Trojan war has been told with little deviation, but one thing that is never spoken of, is what ever… Continue reading
What Happened To The Colossus of Rhodes?
In my next attempt at distinguishing what could be considered a pile of Ancient Junk, one does have to consider the seven wonders of the ancient world. Not that the wonders of… Continue reading
As I ponder what Ancient Junk could possibly mean, and just what sort of example I could render for discussion, many thoughts began to race through my mind, originally I had thought of an incident during Alexander the Great`s invasion of India,… Continue reading
