Weaponised smallpox: Two blankets, a handkerchief, and a museum exhibit afterthought
Daily Maverick | 21.04.2026 03:24
Scythian archers dipped their arrowheads into cadavers, hoping to give their enemies tetanus. In 1346, Mongol warriors laying siege to a Genoese trading outpost in Crimea catapulted the bodies of plague victims over its fortified wall.
