Chariots - Rock Tombs of El Amarna

 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. 

among the buried at Tell el Amarna was one captain Mahu, 

the chief of the Medjay - the paramilitary force guarding the pharaoh and his capital

tribute, including horses 

Valete