People Have Been at This for a While, from Stefan Jovanovich
The Oriental Institute sponsored a dual address by an Egyptian and Hittite scholar about the first recorded battle in history–Kadesh.
I found it fascinating.
anonymous writes:
I find the Hittites fascinating myself. They were very innovative. I think we still don't know how they got water into their mountain capital.
If I remember it correctly, for this battle they also had the innovation of better wagons. They moved the axis and were able to place more fighters in one wagon. The Egyptians had only two (?) per wagon.
Some months back I argued here that the military is a driver of innovation. I was in part thinking that because of the Hittites.