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Ancient Egyptian Warfare, more than 90 Brown students participated in a student-led, live-action reconstruction of the ...
On the outskirts of Kadesh, Pharaoh Ramesses II finds himself ensnared in an ambush set by the Hittites. Through a tumultuous clash of chariots and strategic might, the Battle of Kadesh unfolds—the ...
This year, students chose to reenact the 13th century B.C.E. Battle of Kadesh, a major battle between the Egyptian and Hittite empires. The battle, which took place along the modern-day Lebanon-Syria ...
Their tangle with Egypt’s Ramses the Great at the Battle of Kadesh resulted in the world’s first peace treaty. (3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire.) “They were ...
Pelletier, an Egyptologist at Paris-Sorbonne University, claims to have found seven secret messages on the obelisk.
Now antiquarians could deduce that Abu Simbel was built by Ramses II and that its walls contained scenes of the king at the 1275 BC Battle of Kadesh. They deduced that the figures in the Temple of ...
Its southernmost border touched Canaan, but that is all. In fact, the lack of Hittite presence in Canaan itself is fundamentally linked to the famous Battle of Kadesh. This was a battle fought between ...