of attack, were richly mounted with quivers full of arrows. The Egyptians invented the yoke saddle harnessing method around 1500 BC. As a general rule, the Egyptians used chariots as mobile archery platforms. Chariots always had two men, with the driver steering the chariot with his reins while the main archer aimed his bow and arrow at any targets within range. The best preserved examples of Egyptian chariots are the four specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

By the 7th century BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire