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Egyptian archer on a chariot, from an ancient engraving at Thebes. The bow and arrow is one of ancient Egypt's most crucial weapons, used from Predynastic times through the Dynastic age and into the Christian and Islamic periods. The first bows were commonly "horn bows", made by joining a pair of antelope horns with a central piece of wood.
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Every now and then, the entire Egyptian fleet would be filled with men and weapons of all kinds, and the Egyptian fleet, raising the yellow Egyptian flag, would approach the coasts of the European countries on the Mediterranean, to display its strength and spread fear and panic in the hearts of the European population and the military garrisons ...
Possible reconstruction of a late Ptolemaic máchimos (around mid–1st century BCE) [1]. The term máchimoi (Greek: μάχιμοι, plural of μάχιμος, máchimos, meaning "pugnacious") commonly refers to a broad category of ancient Egyptian low-ranked soldiers which rose during the Late Period of Egypt (664–332 BCE) and, more prominently, during the Ptolemaic dynasty (323–30 BCE).
Hellenistic soldiers circa 100 BCE, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Egypt; detail of the Nile mosaic of Palestrina. The Ptolemaic army was the army of the Ptolemaic Greek kings that ruled Egypt from 305 to 30 BC. Like most of the other armies of the Diadochi, it was very much Macedonian in style, with the use of the long pike in a deep phalanx formation.
A combination of favorable geographical features contributed to the success of ancient Egyptian culture, the most important of which was the rich fertile soil resulting from annual inundations of the Nile River. The ancient Egyptians were thus able to produce an abundance of food, allowing the population to devote more time and resources to ...
Ancient Egyptian soldiers (1 C, 13 P) W. ... Pages in category "Military history of ancient Egypt" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. Combined military forces of Egypt You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Arabic. (April 2019) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for ...