King Tut's Chariots Marvels of Engineering

Discovery News ^ | Tuesday, August 3, 2010 | Rossella Lorenzi

[ROTB]

“the vibrations are damped by the wheel itself like the intelligent suspensions in modern cars”

Awww ... the Egyptians got *LUCKY* people!!

Remember! That was the same culture that thought poopoo was a magical medicinal elixir!

[hellbender]

Barf. All this supposed “sophisticated design” is basically just the product of the limited materials they had to work with.

[bunkerhill7]

These are show-room toy models-not for actual usage

because a horse would very quickly destroy their puny construction with one kick-

[wolfcreek]

[tutstar]

gnip

[Question_Assumptions]

Robert Drews argues that chariots were the jet fighters of their day in his book The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.

[SunkenCiv]

Herodotus’ modern translators had a good laugh about the Egyptians’ use of crocodile dung for eye ailments — turns out the ancient E’s had by accident found a naturally occurring antibiotic. Maybe that’s what you meant.

[SunkenCiv]

Yup, they served as mobile archery platforms; the driver swung along parallel to the enemy line, the archer fired shot after shot into the enemies, then they’d zoom back to get more arrows.

[ROTB]

>turns out the ancient E’s had by accident found a naturally occurring antibiotic

“Even a stopped clock ...”

[DuncanWaring]

Here’s a story about a full-scale working model:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/builds.html

[justa-hairyape]

Interesting story. They also have a mock-up built near Stirling Castle and it looks different then the Nova built Trebuchet and the American made model mock-up. Learned about WarWolf in the BBC series below. Very good series. There are 5 episodes each with 6 parts. Would like to see additional episodes if they have been made.

A History Of Scotland - Episode 3 - Bishop Makes King (2/6)

[colorado tanker]

That thing must have been a real babe magnet in the day.

[SunkenCiv]

Naturally, an open-top vehicle, the owner’s obviously rich, geez, it’s a wonder he didn’t have a couple of hundred kids.