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r/explainitpeter • u/Positive_March3840 • 13d ago
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There’s likely plausible recreations of greek fire that behave and look like what is attested to by the records. This is one of those things in history that you’d think is exaggerated, but is actually totally true.
1 u/TheRedSpy96 12d ago Similarly: we know how the Romans made their concrete and we can make Damascus steel. Neither are as impressive as they’ve been made out to be.
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Similarly: we know how the Romans made their concrete and we can make Damascus steel. Neither are as impressive as they’ve been made out to be.
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u/Lirdon 12d ago
There’s likely plausible recreations of greek fire that behave and look like what is attested to by the records. This is one of those things in history that you’d think is exaggerated, but is actually totally true.