The chariot represents the high level of engineering sophistication reached by the Egyptian chariot builders at King Tut's time. [Egyptian Museum]

1 posted on
11/09/2010 7:10:28 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
He got it from the Ancient Aliens.
3 posted on
11/09/2010 7:12:51 PM PST by
Perdogg
(What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
To: SunkenCiv
Spoilt rich teens and their fast vehicles.
You do have the most interesting posts, thanks!
7 posted on
11/09/2010 7:22:44 PM PST by
bgill
(K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: SunkenCiv
I read the amazing description, then I see a picture of something comparable to my granny’s garden cart.
12 posted on
11/09/2010 7:45:45 PM PST by
Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
("Words that will live in infamy: 'This is not a time for ideological purity.'" - Michelle Malkin)
To: SunkenCiv
Now this was Engineering Sophistication for its time.

Model mockup of the Warwolf Trebuchet built by Edward Longshanks King of England for the siege of the Scottish Castle Stirling 1304. Largest working Trebuchet ever made. He apparently wanted to impress the ladies.
To: SunkenCiv
That’s just what the Left wants us back into. I can see myself, and my honey pulling into Mel’s for a Burger, and a Malted.
14 posted on
11/09/2010 7:59:42 PM PST by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: SunkenCiv
... so that the vibrations are damped by the wheel itself like the intelligent suspensions in modern cars ... One might legitimately compare this damping to a spring / shock absorber combination, but there is obviously nothing "intelligent" - that is reactive, about it.
Well, he's just a little overenthusiastic about his subject. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.
15 posted on
11/09/2010 8:13:20 PM PST by
dr_lew
To: SunkenCiv
Hey, we all know what it would have been had it not been for Taita!
16 posted on
11/09/2010 8:15:41 PM PST by
aruanan
To: SunkenCiv
A real man would have rode on the back of his horse.
18 posted on
11/09/2010 8:33:09 PM PST by
Mariner
(USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
To: SunkenCiv
Its very lovely, of course...But really, (Whispers) Its just a little cart.
19 posted on
11/09/2010 8:51:03 PM PST by
Celtic Cross
(I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
To: SunkenCiv; MestaMachine
“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!
21 posted on
11/09/2010 9:57:50 PM PST by
ROTB
(Without a Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia during armed revolt.)
To: SunkenCiv
Barf. All this supposed “sophisticated design” is basically just the product of the limited materials they had to work with.
To: SunkenCiv
24 posted on
11/10/2010 4:15:11 AM PST by
wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
To: Nightshift
25 posted on
11/10/2010 4:49:41 AM PST by
tutstar
To: SunkenCiv
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.
To: SunkenCiv
That thing must have been a real babe magnet in the day.
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