Название: Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late 18th Dynasty
Автор: John Coleman Darnell, Colleen Manassa
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons
Год: 2007
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 302
Размер: 82,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
The force that forged an empire. The furious thunder of thousands of hooves, the clatter and sheen of bronze armor sparkling in the desert sun, the crunch of wooden wheels racing across a rock–strewn battlefield–and leading this terrifying chariot charge, the gallant Pharaoh, the ribbons of his blue war crown streaming behind him as he launches yet another arrow into the panicking mass of his soon–to–be–routed enemies. While scenes like the one depicted above did occur in ancient Egypt, they represent only one small aspect of the vast, complex, and sophisticated military machine that secured, defended, and expanded the borders of the empire during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.