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Sniffy4 t1_jbd2yk1 wrote

interesting, because if you look at the horses pulling chariots in paintings from the battle of Kadesh about 3500 years ago, they are clearly much smaller than modern horses; would be like riding a pony

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StekenDeluxe t1_jbdqudx wrote

Believe it or not, but the Egyptian horses at that battle were - at the time - actually considered to be quite big!

Earlier pharaohs had to make do with an even smaller breed, the Central Asian Akhal-Teke. Ye olde Egyptians didn't get their hands on thoroughbred ("pur-sang") Arabian horses until the reigns of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II.

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tanathosX t1_jbe1426 wrote

tbf people were lot shorter too

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War_Hymn t1_jbfoxqy wrote

Average male height in New Kingdom Egypt was 5 feet 3 inches.

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tanathosX t1_jbfw1o2 wrote

>5 feet 3 inches

which is the size of 14 yo nowadays :p

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Doctor_Impossible_ t1_jbf0fgf wrote

> because if you look at the horses pulling chariots in paintings from the battle of Kadesh about 3500 years ago, they are clearly much smaller than modern horses

Cool of them to ensure everything was depicted to scale.

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Sniffy4 t1_jbfbi97 wrote

if the horses were large enough to ride, chariots would be a pointless waste in battle, which in fact they were by Roman times.

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