Patron of the podcast Seanbob sent in this question for Murray to mull over, 'what is up with foreskin collection? I know Ramses wrote on walls about the stacks of foreskins he collected from the sea peoples, and David bought his wife with foreskins (1 Samuel 18:27). So what is the deal?
Was circumcisions popular in some cultures and not others? Why not the whole penis? What did they do with them after they stacked them? Some sort of trophy? Like a deer rack on your Grandpa's wall? It is one thing to like dicks, it is strange to collect foreskins. What is the deal?'
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AW287 - The Marcomannic Wars
AWA286 - Low Casualty figures
AWA285 - Where are the Light Armed Troops?
AWA284 - Comparing the Byzantine conquest of Vandal North Africa with the Punic Wars
AWA283 - Why did the Macedonian phalanx struggle against the Greek mercenary hoplites at Issus?
AW282 - Alexander Attacks Persia
AWA281 - What are you hoping to see when the scrolls from Herculaneum are scanned?
AWA280 - When guides betray
AWA279 - Roman interactions with Dacia
AW278 - Publius Quinctilius Varus and the Teutoburg Disaster
AWA277 - AWA Got a Postcard!
AWA276 - Should Marcus Aurelius have chosen a different successor?
AWA275 - Crassus at Carrhae
AW274 - The Julio-Claudian legion
AWA273 - The stagnation of the phalanx
AWA272 - Targeting battlefield leaders
AWA271 - Soldiers fighting for usurpers
AWA270 - The battle of the Hydaspes
AW269 - The impact of weather on conflict
AWA268 - Why do Probus and Aurelian get no love and Diocletian does?
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