Archaeologists uncover 4,000-year-old evidence of siege warfare in ancient Mesopotamia

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• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess all you really need is a defensible position for the enemy to conduct a “siege,” by definition.

  Offhand, I guess that suggests that sieges go back around ~12Kyrs ago, or really, much earlier, in which a transient band of hunter-gatherers taking shelter is in an attacked position.

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