The scythed chariot was a war chariot with scythe blades mounted on each side. It was employed in ancient times. The scythed chariot was a modified war...

in the Battle of Cunaxa. The use of the scorched-earth tactic and scythed chariots by Darius suggests that he wanted to repeat that battle. Alexander...

featuring crossed war scythes Persian scythed chariot Wikiquote has quotations related to War scythe. Fauchard Kama – Japanese hand scythe, sometimes also adapted...

first to yoke four horses to their chariots. They also used scythed chariots. Cyrus the Younger employed these chariots in large numbers at the Battle of...

Press. ISBN 978-1-58567-667-5. Rivet, A. L. F. (1979). "A note on scythed chariots". Antiquity. 53 (208): 130–132. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00042344. ISSN 0003-598X...

legionaries, and cavalry. Pharnaces also had scythed chariots. Pharnaces drew up his army with the scythed chariots in front of the first line, which was made...

elephants and more than a hundred scythed chariots with him from the eastern satrapies. The numbers of elephants and chariots supposed to be present at the...

infantry during the Greco-Persian Wars inspired the Persians to introduce scythed chariots. Sparta is one of the most famous city-states, along with Athens, which...

University Press. Retrieved 30 April 2013. Anon. Táin Bó Cúalnge. The Scythed Chariot. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2013...

battlefield was almost perfectly even, so as not to impede movement of his scythed chariots. Despite all these beneficial factors, he still fled the battle before...

Bahubali. Later its broken head was dumped in the river. He used a scythed chariot drawn by a pair of horses in the Kalakeya War. It was destroyed by...

Reaper-binder Seed drill Skidder Snowplow Thresher Chariot Ratha - an ancient Indo-Iranian chariot. Scythed chariot Gun carriage Horse artillery Limbers and caissons...

mounted on a scythed chariot drawn by two rearing horses. The chariot is based on Roman models, not native British or Iceni models, and has a scythe blade attached...

broke the chaityas inside. During this battle, Ajatashatru used a scythed chariot, featuring a swinging mace and blades on both sides and attacked the...

width of a vehicle beyond the legal limit of 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). Scythed chariot – An ancient, military counterpart Richards, Gary (2013-12-06). "Roadshow:...

Memnon of Heraclea. The Pontic forces are also said to have had 90 scythed chariots. Mithridates' armies were a compound make-up of Greek and Oriental...

Empire. 2 Maccabees 13:2 writes that 300 scythed chariots were deployed as part of the expedition. As scythed chariots were generally used for lowland combat...

Leonardo's drawings of a scythed chariot and a fighting vehicle...

writer Vegetius, referring in his work De re militari to scythed chariots, wrote: The armed chariots used in war by Antiochus and Mithridates at first terrified...

Kingdoms, etc. The early Indo-Iranians developed the use of chariots in warfare. The scythed chariot was later invented in India and soon adopted by the Persians...

as a reserve of 16 war elephants. Ahead of the main body, units of scythed chariots and a unit of camel-borne Arab archers were posted in front of the...

500 BC. 485 BC: Catapult by Ajatashatru in Magadha, India. 485 BC: Scythed chariot by Ajatashatru in Magadha, India. 5th century BC: Cast iron in Ancient...

Five new units are introduced, including slingers, camel riders, scythe chariots, armored elephants, and fire galleys. New technologies also introduce...

including cataphracts. In addition to normal cavalry Pontus also fielded scythed chariots. Under Mithridates VI Pontus also fielded a corps of 120,000 troops...

led out his troops in a more formal battle array. Archelaus had his scythed chariots to the front followed by his Macedonian style phalanx, then came his...

installed in the car: the wheel-destroying spikes, inspired by Ben-Hur's scythed chariots, were entirely made in-studio; and the ejector seat used a seat thrown...

sides engaged in battle. The Romans neutralised a Pontic charge of scythed chariots before pushing the Pontic phalanx back across the plain. According...

the battle occurred when the Scythed chariots led by Archelaus dived into Nicomedes army. According to Appian, the chariots caused wounds of such a hideous...

opposing soldiers and their horses. Rarely, they also made use of scythed chariots. In terms of army size, the respected historian Polybius reports that...

naked and blue. The other popular image of pre-Roman Britain, the scythed chariot, is not mentioned by Caesar either but alluded to by later commentators...