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In the ancient world, epidemics were interpreted as punishments invited by the people to punish the wickedness of men: think of the pestilence launched by Apollo to cut down the Achaean camp during the Trojan War or that which Jehovah strikes down on the Philistines.
Although it is difficult for us moderns to understand, considering a disease the fruit of divine wrath did not automatically exclude the possibility of fully understanding the actual dynamics of contagion and of trying to take appropriate countermeasures.
But when did men start thinking they could use the spread of disease as a means of striking for adversaries in war?
Surprisingly very early it seems, perhaps even as early as the Bronze Age ...
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37 - WHEN WAS THE BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE BORN?
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00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - Pestilence in the Levant
03:56 - The Hittite Disease
06:50 - The Rite of the Rams
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Cover: Pieter van Halen, "The plague of the Philistines in Ashdod", 1661
Curated by Gioal Canestrelli
Institute of Experimental Archeology "Fianna ap Palug" of Verona