Will those gay Greek units be in the next build?

[Mithradates]

Ahh the old april fools day sacred band prank. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[abou]

254 bodies of the Sacred Band were found under the monument at Chaeronea, which means 254 died at the battle. The rest were either injured or surrendered.

[Simmons]

254 bodies of the Sacred Band were found under the monument at Chaeronea, which means 254 died at the battle. The rest were either injured or surrendered.

I thought they cremated people when they died?

[abou]

I'm not quite sure how often that happened. You would have to ask someone like TK about it. I know that there were instances of opposing armies returning cremated dead of the defeated back to their respective cities (I can't remember the battle, but I think Sparta returned Athenian dead in urns during the Peloponessian war).

In the case of the Sacred Band, however, skeletons were found after excavations at the monument.