Monday
This will be a month long expedition into ancient Egypt. From every Egyptian movie as well as pictures in the books we all are aware that Egypt built chariots. We now know that these little monsters took approximately 600 hours to build (using old methods and modern German craftsmen) and from 1600 BC they were improved upon (solid wheels to four, six, or even eight spokes) to 1000 BC when armed cavalry took their place, Egypt had over 1000 war chariots in his standing army. Almost all of the wood was imported for the chariots because Egypt grew only low grade wood not fit for battle conditions with one or two horsepower engines moving over rough terrain at 10-15 miles per hour (The chariots were the advance shock troops and in the opening charge soldiers ran beside them in battle line�that�s another story.) A chariot of the time was equivalent to owning a airplane today (expensive and maintenance heavy). With metal available for only the more recent versions of a chariot of what woods was the majority of existing chariots made?