Lysimachus
Another thing, some pieces of coral that belonged to the chariot wheels was brought up, and broken. You know what was found in the broken coral? Rust spots...clearly seen rust colored coral, indicating there was indeed metal that reinforced a number of these chariot wheels. This stuff is thousands of years old
Nothing like having an opponent shoot themselves in the foot.You would not find metal from chariot wheels with rust
spots it would be entirely crusted if indeed there was even a trace of metal left after nearly 3 millenia but only IF THEY WERE USING IRON IN THIER CHARIOTS. The only metal used was copper or brass to quiet the noise of the wheels.
Oh,Dear[sigh]
"O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it..." [Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"]