Chariot archers - historical evidence?

[RollingWave]

Chariot archers were used... just probably not in that particular period...
In China they used 4 horse Chariots that would have 3-4 men on the chariots with usually 2 as bowmen 1 driver and 1 wielding a polearm....

However that sort of warfare also dimished (interestingly around the same time period as the mid east )as calvary became obviously more all rounded with less weakness

[soda]

By the time of the Romans (even earlier), man had realized that warriors directly on horseback were superior to chariots. They had already cultivated horses that could bear the burden of the weight of a man (idea/method spread from Central Asia). The chariots are really ancient. The Egpytians used them but that was back in the days of the Old Kingdom. I can't remember the name of the battle but there was one enormous battle (for the time) between the Egyptians and I believe the Hittites. That was the largest chariot battle ever (several thousand years ago).

[Kraxis]

The chariots are really ancient. The Egpytians used them but that was back in the days of the Old Kingdom. I can't remember the name of the battle but there was one enormous battle (for the time) between the Egyptians and I believe the Hittites. That was the largest chariot battle ever (several thousand years ago).

Egypt got the chariots from the Hyksos, a people from the north (middle eastern perhaps, but perhaps even indo-european) who conquered most of Egypt for about 100 years. That was called the Second Intermediary Period. After it came the New Kingdom (the Old Kingdom was the one dating back to almost 4000BC) it ranged from about 1600BC until 600BC.

The battle of Kadesh (Qadesh if you like) was indeed the largest chariot battle we know of, but it also the first battle that we can reconstruct with any certainty. It happened in about 1285BC. It wasn't that big really, but it was a serious struggle.