Subject: nakhtu-aa 'strong-of-arm' heavy infantry
Culture: Middle Kingdom Egyptian
Setting: imperial warfare, Egypt 2055-1650 BC
Object: axe
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* Higgins Armory Museum > Ancient Arms and Armor
"Axe, 2040-1786 B.C.E.
Egypt (Middle Kingdom period)
Bronze; wood; leather
Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz. ...
Ancient Egypt was relatively slow to adopt bronze. The pyramids were built mostly with stone-based technology. This axe was made a few hundred years later, at the early stages of bronzeworking in Egypt. Notice how the blade is tied to the shaft -- the same way you attach a stone axe. As metalworking developed, the Egyptians learned to make the blade with a socket instead.
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Egypt
