Quote Originally Posted by Gertrude
Because they wanted to resurect all the aspects of "true" Egypt before the decline ?
Their problem. In any case they would have been direly lacking the entire rather large, complex and specialised infrastructure the raising and maintaining of the great chariot fleets of olden times required - nevermind now that cavalry was by far more cost-effective, so that contemporary armies in the East wielded easily ten times the number of horsemen compared to the chariotry the Late Bronze Age empires could mobilize at their heydays.