a stone relief showing a man being run over by a chariot

The Hittites' fast war chariots threatened mighty Egypt

Rolling over enemies, the Hittite fleet looked unstoppable when they fought Egypt in the biggest chariot battle ever.

A stone relief depicts a chariot crushing an enemy. It was created in the tenth to eighth centuries B.C. in the neo-Hittite kingdom of Karkemish, Syria. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey.
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