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  1. Is Sumerian Tammuz/Dumuzid the god of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos?

    The iconography of Melqart-Tammuz (1/2) - rewrite Abstract: At the end of the Bronze Age the Isthar and Tammuz cult is (again) popular in southern Anatolia...

  2. African History | History Forum

    Mar 26, 2025 · African History / North Africa / West Africa / Central Africa / East Africa 1 2 3 … 27 Next Filters External Depictions of African Peoples luci3 Mar 26, 2025 9 10 11 Replies 219 …

  3. Puck, Punch and political cartoons | Page 2 | History Forum

    Apr 4, 2020 · I've always smiled at this gem: View of the world from 9th Avenue When I was in college in the early 80s in Pittsburgh, many of the metro New Yorkers had this poster. As a …

  4. About Shalivahana .... | History Forum

    Apr 6, 2025 · It is generally agreed that the mythical emperor Vikramaditya from Indian legends was almost certainly Chandragupta II. I want to understand another mythical ruler, …

  5. Most Conservative US Presidents | History Forum

    Jul 22, 2016 · List and explain the most conservative of the pre-1990 US Presidents (not necessarily in order, but that'd be nice). We're only considering things they did in office, not …

  6. The Scale of War: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

    Aug 8, 2022 · Using, for antiquity, only numbers provided by the most accurate of ancient historians, Thucydides and Polybius, for each battle in the wars they describe and for the …

  7. Has Religion's body count cracked the billions? | History Forum

    Like everyone has said, the majority of wars simply used religion as an excuse. It's easier to do that in a monotheistic religion then a polytheistic religion. East Asia and africa (and the …

  8. Roman / Byzantine light border cavalry - History Forum

    May 28, 2020 · I had remembered that Byzantines had light cavalry on borders similar to later Hungarian/Croatian/Polish hussars. These were called trapezitoi or tasinarioi. But Wikipedia …

  9. The Compendium of Chronicles - History Forum

    Oct 15, 2022 · I want to share the most reliable source on the history of the tribes of Genghis Khan. This book is called "The Compendium of Chronicles." This work was written on the …

  10. Fencing in the past | History Forum

    Jan 29, 2025 · Japanese "fencing"? Not really fencing but the title of the bulletin calls it so German Mensur. Otto Skorzeny got his scars from fencing