Ancient Egyptians: The Battle of Megiddo (2003) 2 of 5

This fascinating series utilizes state-of-the-art CGI technology to bring to life ancient Egypt. A series of short stories derived from caches of recovered papyri tell the stories of ancient Egyptians as events come to life. This episodes illustrates ancient Egypt's preparation for war against an Near Eastern power, told through the eyes of a common soldier. Required to leave his family behind, the story chronicles the journey of a common man who must put aside thoughts of home to become a soldier.

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• Ancient
• Egyptians
• Battle
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• Megiddo
• 2003

[shotime1982]

@haithamsalah1 and yes Egypt or its provinces have been attacked by akkadian, phoenicians, babylonian, hittites and many other people, that doesn't mean it was overtaken everytime. Territorial battles took place quite often in ancient times. In fact tuthmosis III was the pharaoh that expanded the territories of Egypt more than any other pharaoh before or after him. Some of those territories were eventually lost due to invasions or uprisings and rebellions later after his reign.

[shotime1982]

@haithamsalah1 "Of course, there was also mixing with the Semitic-speaking peoples (the Akkadians, Phoenicians and Hyksos, the people of Babylonia and Assyria, and later the invading Arab armies) and with Indo-Europeans (elements of the Mitanni, Hyksos, Hittites and Sea Peoples; the invading Persian Empire, the Greeks that came in Alexander's wake; then the Romans)."

[haithamsalah1]

if you want to see how egyptian wrestling

watch?v=m4R5SF2mXjk

Pharaonic army depends on the quality, not quantity

[intellegence63smart]

Egypt now has the 10th Strongest Army in the world.

[HistoryLover1550]

@NightmareTroubador U r welcome.

[NightmareTroubador]

@HistoryLover1550 Agreed. He has a nice tan. Thank you for making a comment that has to do w/ the show and not being rude to others.

[HistoryLover1550]

The actors playing Tuthmosis III and Ahmose would be great as King Tut I think.

[wwrecords1]

"Evidence of the oldest recognizable monarchy in human history, preceding the rise of the earliest Egyptian kings by several generations,has been discovered in artifacts from ancient Nubia in Africa.Various symbols of Nubian royalty that were found are the SAME as those associated, in later times, with Egyptian kings. Nubians may have reached this stage of political development as long ago as 3300 B.C.,many generations before the earliest documented Egyptian king."-New York Times, March 1, 1979

[Mistermax30]

@Napoleontas They were Nubian mercenaries...