Salvete omnes,
a quick lope to ancient Egypt, New Kingdom period, the rule of Amenhotep IV/ Akhenaten(Echnaton), the 10th pharaoh of the XVIII Dynasty.
On Archive world library there is a collection of archaeological reports from the famous site El Amarna - the short-lived capital of sun-worshiping Akhenaten and his empire.
Nota bene German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt discovered the famous bust of hemet-nesut-aat meretef Nefertiti, the grand or main wife of the pharaoh, at the ruins of el Amarna, nowadays stored at the State Museum in Berlin .
The reports - by a husband and wife team Norman de Garis Daves & Nina M. Davies ( jointly as N. de G. Davies) with Seymour de Ricci - contain hundreds of drawings from the rock tombs at Tell el Amarna.
I decided to pick some drawings up for a chariot display for this blog - these are horses and chariots of the royal couple and their family, of the court officials and administrators.
the chief of the Medjay - the paramilitary force guarding the pharaoh and his capital
tribute, including horses
Valete
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