Posts: 361 Location: Haifa, Israel
Sun 27 Jun, 2010 9:42 am
| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: |
| Sa'ar Nudel wrote: | | Egyptian warriors were very fond of the composete bow (they used very long vicious arrows) |
Only the chariot warriors--relief carvings continue to show foot soldiers with the old-style long non-recurved bows long after the composite bow became the predominant missile armament for charioteers. I don't know if there's any way to tell whether these long bows had self, laminated, or composite construction, though, since (if I'm not mistaken) the only ancient bows discovered in Egypt so far seem to be foreign ones (Assyrian?). |
According the egyptian iconography, they had simple, recurve and "triangle" bows alike (that last kind was unique to the Nubian infnatry).
Some more info can be seen here http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/weapons/index.html
Posts: 2,698 Location: Indonesia
Sun 04 Jul, 2010 12:27 am
Heheh. Actually, if you look at the site's page on bows and slings, you might notice a rather familiar name in the footnotes....
Posts: 361 Location: Haifa, Israel
Sun 04 Jul, 2010 12:50 am
| Lafayette C Curtis wrote: |
| Heheh. Actually, if you look at the site's page on bows and slings, you might notice a rather familiar name in the footnotes.... |
:) Hahaha, very cool :cool:
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