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