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Bronze Axehead from the Tomb at Dra abu el-Naga in Thebes, Egypt dated between 1550-1525 BCE on display in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England

At the start of the 18th Dynasty (about 1550 BCE) , Kind Ahmose extended Egyptian influence in Nubia to the south. Later campaings in the Near East took Egyptian control as far as the Euphrated River in Syria. The axehead is inscribed with the kings name and would have been a common style in the Egyptian armies of this time. Axe heads could be cheap and easy to produce on mass which meant you could arm a larger number of soldiers in a shorter period of time.

Photographs taken by myself 2019