Sentences with phrase «smaller war bands»

As University of Aarhus's Vandkilde puts it: «It's an army like the one described in Homeric epics, made up of smaller war bands that gathered to sack Troy» — an event thought to have happened fewer than 100 years later, in 1184 B.C.E..

Not exact matches

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

In the mix is a small but ferocious band of guerrilla fighters, who also want to get their hands of the treasure to fund their war for independence.

Formerly known as Horse Soldiers (the movie's subtitle is The Declassified True Story Of The Horse Soldiers), 12 Strong tells the true story of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

12 Strong looks to be resurrecting a few of those elements (well, the military fetishism and jingoism, at the very least), telling the «true story» of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

Set almost entirely in the trenches of Aisne, northern France, during World War 1, it focuses on a small band of British soldiers who are hunkering down, awaiting their fate.

The stakes of the tug - of - war are raised as the orange band is centered over a small reflecting pool.

4000 years ago in Eurasia, young warriors killed large numbers of dogs, ate their flesh, and chopped their skulls into small pieces as part of a bizarre initiation into war bands

Here, among the twisted remains of small war wrecks and discarded ordinance, divers can find banded pipefish, crocodile fish, nudibranchs of all sizes and colors, schools of glassfish, mandarin fish and more.

The new game in the 11 year long series is simply titled Medal of Honor, and will be leaving the world war II theatre for the first time in it's history with a modern day setting of Afghanistan where we will be introduced to a small band of fictional characters.

This aspect of his art was emphasized in Rothko's catalogue introduction to Still's first New York show at Peggy Guggenheim's: «It is significant that Still, working out West and alone, has arrived at pictorial conclusions so allied to those of the small band of Myth Makers who have emerged here during the war.