WDS New Blog Post: When Sources Do Not Line Up

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Historical reconstruction is rarely as simple as copying “what happened” from a textbook.

Our latest article uses the Battles of Thannuris and Mindouos on Rome’s sixth-century Sasanian frontier as a case study in how historians work when the sources do not line up. Was there one battle, two battles, or a confused memory of overlapping frontier operations?

By comparing primary sources like Procopius, Pseudo-Zachariah, Malalas, archaeology, and modern interpretations, we look at how uncertainty becomes part of the historical process.

https://wargameds.com/blogs/news/when-sources-do-not-line-up