Sentences with phrase «war bands described»

The controversial finds, which date to between roughly 3,900 and 3,700 years ago, may provide the first archaeological evidence of adolescent male war bands described in ancient texts.

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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..

(In our interview in October, Holder described that project: «It's similar in style and tone to Wicked, but it concerns a band of vampire hunters based in Salamanca, Spain, after the «Cursed Ones» have declared war on the human race.