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The Sumerians of Mesopotamia were among the first to use war chariots and the ‘phalanx’ formation, as shown in contemporary sources such as the Standard of Ur and the Stele of Vultures. This picture depicts a typical Sumerian four-wheeled war chariot. Heavy in construction and pulled by four wild donkeys, it was intended to crashContinue reading “Sumerian chariot, circa 2500 BC”