From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies

From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies

Three soldiers (far right) carry karnyxes, long horns with frightening boar-headed mouths that produce eerie calls during battle. Prisma/Universal Images Group via Getty Images – By Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University – Published: 2022 Aug …