Battle scars reveal the life of 'Mephisto', a WW1 German tank from a century ago
- Written by Michael Westaway, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
Mephisto after its capture in France by the Australian 26th Battalion.Queensland Museum, Author provided
What can we possibly learn from the archaeological study of a World War I battle tank? Quite a lot, it turns out, when the attention is devoted to a rare German-built A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank known as Mephisto.
The tank was originally collected...
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