Are You Going on the Foot Tour Afterward?

Unlike modern warfare, this all happens in a confined space. Walking among the pile of corpses entailed treading everywhere over stained earth and pools of blood. Polybius says that after zama, the battlefield was so thick with bloody corpses that it was nearly impossible to advance over the ground. Plutarch recorded a similar picture of some 25 thousand pikemen at pidunna,. The entire field would be filled with corpses, and each of them lost a third of his men during the final moments of death or after the corpse lay on the dust. There could have been more than ten thousand gallons of blood soaking a field that's ten or 20 football fields long. I can't imagine