Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Diorama Gallipoli/Dardanelles campaign/Battle of Çanakkale. 10-year-old-me, who loved NOTHING better than military dioramas, was thrilled to speechlessness. 41-year-old me wa
Medieval Karl:
1d10. at the Istanbul Military Museum.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, 1453, enormous display, painted, we were told, by a Russian in two months. Given that the guard's specialty is Turkish painting,
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, 1453, enormous display.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, 1453, enormous display.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Turks of some sort going after the Great Wall.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. What it says on the cover.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. One end of the chain the Byzantines stretched across the Golden Horn to keep the Ottomans from bombarding Constantinople from the sea. Mehmet II just dragged his shipped over land, Fitzcarraldo style, sailed down, and bombarded t
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. A collection of 14th- and 15th-century helmets from France, Germany, Italy, and England.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. Headpiece for a camel. The Sultan annually sent camels loaded with riches to Mecca. Decorated the camels too, apparently.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Scary Iranian Helmet.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. 15th-century chainmail! No idea how it survived in this climate.
Medieval Karl:
Turkish military museum. A variety of shields from India: turtle, crocodile, and...?
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Mehter Takımı ("mehter platoon"), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_military_band. This fellow just stood there like this through the whole show.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Mehter Takımı ("mehter platoon"), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_military_band, featuring the most forlorn of drum majors.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Mehter Takımı ("mehter platoon"), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_military_band, featuring the most forlorn of drum majors. This was his expression the whole time. His mustache? Real, I think. Many of the others? Not so much
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Deep roots of Turks in the Uygurs, among others.
Medieval Karl:
Atilla the hun, Istanbul Military Museum
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. sneaky encirclement tactic
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Manikins are the thing here. We've seen them perched in trees advertising stores, for example. A bit unsettling.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul Military Museum. Painting featured a frightened horse.
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. How to make chainmail, Ikea guide.
Medieval Karl:
Askeri Müze: the Military Museum, Istanbul
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Assassination vacation, Turkish style. Jacket of one of the men with Mahmud Şevket Paşa (Mahmud Shevket Pasha) when he was killed. Bullet holes circled in red thread.
Medieval Karl:
6 guns used to kill Mahmud Şevket Paşa (Mahmud Shevket Pasha) in 1913
Medieval Karl:
Istanbul military museum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Military_Museum. Scott with Turkish Dictionary, indispensable when he found his Turkish military and art historical vocabulary failing him.