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    Ludi: ancient Greek and Roman games
    Tastes Of History
    • May 9
    • 12 min

    Ludi: ancient Greek and Roman games

    Continuing the series 'Ludi', and following on from ancient Egypt, here are selection of games played by ancient Greeks and Romans. Pente...
    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Senet
    Tastes Of History
    • Apr 11
    • 2 min

    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Senet

    Senet is one of the oldest games in the world and may be the ancestor of modern backgammon. The oldest known representation of Senet is a...
    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Aseb
    Tastes Of History
    • Mar 14
    • 3 min

    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Aseb

    Aseb is the Egyptian version of the ancient Middle Eastern game called ‘The Game of 20 Squares’. Aseb is related to the ‘Royal Game of...
    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Mehen
    Tastes Of History
    • Feb 14
    • 2 min

    Ludi: the ancient Egyptian game of Mehen

    Mehen is an ancient Egyptian game references to which have been found already in the predynastic period before 3100 BC. The gameboard is...
    Ludi: ancient Mesopotamian games
    Tastes Of History
    • Jan 17
    • 2 min

    Ludi: ancient Mesopotamian games

    The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the ‘Game of Twenty Squares’, is a two-player strategy race board game first played in ancient...
    Vaguely 'Historical' Costume
    Tastes Of History
    • Oct 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    Vaguely 'Historical' Costume

    We think it is great for children to dress up but many of the products for sale are, to the trained eye, rather dubious. What follows is...
    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Five
    Tastes Of History
    • Aug 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Five

    The Gunners' Equipment In Part One, where we established the background to building our replica cannon. In describing the firing drills...
    How to: Make a simple Egyptian, Greek or Roman costume
    Tastes Of History
    • Jul 7, 2021
    • 5 min

    How to: Make a simple Egyptian, Greek or Roman costume

    This “How to:” guide is for those readers wishing to recreate simple yet effective historical costume. It is primarily aimed at teachers...
    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Four
    Tastes Of History
    • Jan 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Four

    Projectiles In Parts One to Three of this "How to:" series we established the background to and how we went about building our scale...
    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Three
    Tastes Of History
    • Nov 25, 2020
    • 5 min

    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Three

    The Gun Carriage In Part Two we looked at seven steps to building a barrel for a replica naval gun that was both lightweight and portable....
    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Two
    Tastes Of History
    • Oct 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part Two

    The Gun Barrel The core element, the cannon's barrel, is so named because the earliest guns were constructed with iron staves bound...
    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part One
    Tastes Of History
    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 6 min

    How to: Build a replica Cannon Part One

    The Background History Part One of this series begins with a very brief look at the history of a typical naval gun in use with the Royal...
    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Circular Reporting
    Tastes Of History
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Circular Reporting

    Circular reporting is where a piece of information appears to come from numerous sources, but in reality is derived from only a single...
    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part Two
    Tastes Of History
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 2 min

    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part Two

    In Assessing Information Part One, we looked at how the reliability of sources and the credibility of information can be graded to give...
    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part One
    Tastes Of History
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part One

    In our first "Intelligencer's Guide" we considered the six questions to ask when investigating any subject. Continually asking "Who?",...
    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Asking the Right Questions
    Tastes Of History
    • Aug 19, 2020
    • 5 min

    An Intelligencer's Guide to: Asking the Right Questions

    Many of us rely on the media to keep us informed. The problem I increasingly find is that much of what we are told or read contains less...
    Dionysios' Polybolos
    Tastes Of History
    • Jun 19, 2020
    • 7 min

    Dionysios' Polybolos

    The design of Dionysios of Alexandria’s 'Polybolos' is somewhat unique in the annals of ancient artillery. The very name 'Polybolos' or...

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