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  2. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England: About 8, 000 artifacts [35] Peabody Museum of Natural History , New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts [ 36 ] The Egypt Centre , Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts [ 37 ]

  3. Military of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian War Wheels. Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of eastern North Africa, concentrated along the northern reaches of the Nile River in Egypt.The civilization coalesced around 3150 BC [1] with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia. [2]

  4. List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...

  5. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Wikipedia

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    The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt. The museum also holds 28 pieces of Nimrud ivories from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. [31] There is material from Classical Greece, the Roman Empire and Latin ...

  6. Ancient Egyptian navy - Wikipedia

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    This war is perhaps the most famous Egyptian war heavily involving the naval strength of the empire, and it is the first to ever be well documented. During the reign of Rameses III which was in 1182 BCE to 1151 BCE, a new threat arose to challenge the Egyptians in a different way than what they were used to. [11]

  7. List of equipment of the Egyptian Army - Wikipedia

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    Egypt purchased the original 215 units from the Soviet Union and a domestic production license renaming all the future machines Sakr. Sark-4 are tripod-based units, while Sakr-10 and Sakr-8 are jeep-mounted units, and the rest are truck-mounted units. Egypt also developed a wheeled based MRL called Sakr-45. RAAD 200 Egypt: 122mm MLRS N/A [83] [73]

  8. Military of ancient Nubia - Wikipedia

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    Taharqa's Egypt still held sway in Khor during this period as evidenced by Esarhaddon's 671 BC annal mentioning that Tyre's King Ba'lu had "put his trust upon his friend Taharqa", Ashkelon's alliance with Egypt, and Esarhaddon's inscription asking "if the Kushite-Egyptian forces 'plan and strive to wage war in any way' and if the Egyptian ...

  9. Khopesh - Wikipedia

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    These weapons changed from bronze to iron in the New Kingdom period. [3] The earliest known depiction of a khopesh is from the Stele of the Vultures , depicting King Eannatum of Lagash wielding the weapon; this would date the khopesh to at least 2500 BC.