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Soldiers have been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for at least 3,000 years according to a new study from
"Historians often cite Herodotus’ account of Epizelus, an Athenian spear carrier who experienced psychological problems after the Marathon Wars in 490 B.C., as the first recorded case of PTSD. But texts from Mesopotamia’s Assyrian Dynasty (1300-609 B.C.) record traumas suffered by soldiers who were called upon to fight every third year during their military service. The symptoms were thought to have been caused by the spirits of the enemies whom the patient had killed in battle."
This is the link:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/2922-150126-ancient-world-ptsd
There's also a link to data from an Iron Age site in western Iran to show the brutality of warfare in that period.
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/163-1501/trenches/2823-trenches-hasanlu-tepe-ancient-looters
"Historians often cite Herodotus’ account of Epizelus, an Athenian spear carrier who experienced psychological problems after the Marathon Wars in 490 B.C., as the first recorded case of PTSD. But texts from Mesopotamia’s Assyrian Dynasty (1300-609 B.C.) record traumas suffered by soldiers who were called upon to fight every third year during their military service. The symptoms were thought to have been caused by the spirits of the enemies whom the patient had killed in battle."
This is the link:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/2922-150126-ancient-world-ptsd
There's also a link to data from an Iron Age site in western Iran to show the brutality of warfare in that period.
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/163-1501/trenches/2823-trenches-hasanlu-tepe-ancient-looters
"Hasanlu developed into a significant commercial and production center during the early Iron Age (1400–800 B.C.), owing to its location on important trade and communication routes between Mesopotamia and Anatolia... Many buildings were ransacked and burned, which caused them to collapse.[in 800 BC] In addition, the remains of more than 250 people were uncovered, some with signs of systematic execution.According to Danti’s analysis of the Gold Bowl’s context, the valuable object was in the process of being looted by enemy combatants...The three soldiers, who, based on their military equipment and personal ornaments, probably hailed from the Urartu region north of Iran in modern Armenia, were in the process of plundering a wealthy, multistory complex as the citadel burned. They located the bowl and other valuables in a second-story storeroom. As they fled with their prize, the mud-brick building suddenly collapsed. The invaders were hurled to the floor below, where they were crushed by debris, and lay buried, side-by-side—thieves and their trophy—for nearly three millennia." | |