Every addition to our knowledge of the subject tends to increase our admiration for the technical skill displayed by the ancient Egyptian craftsmen when they were dealing with the relatively limited means at their disposal.

That they were adepts in vehicular structure has already been established by the paintings upon the walls of their tomb chapels, and also by the beautiful specimens of their chariots discovered in Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A specimen exhibited in the Egyptian collection at Florence, another in the Cairo Museum discovered by Mr. Theo. M. Davis in the Tomb of Yuaa and Tuaa, are striking examples of their proficiency. They are well constructed, strong and at the same time exceedingly light. They consist of a bent-wood framework, strengthened, and in one case ornamented, with leather, but though well made and having beautiful lines, these are of a type such as were used by the Theban notables, and might be described as curricles since they have none of the magnificence of the State chariots, of which the “body” discovered in the tomb of Thothmes IV was our first example. This last, also discovered by Mr. Davis and in the Cairo Museum, had unfortunately been broken up by the early plunderers of that tomb. Its wheels, axle and pole had been destroyed, but the “body,” the only portion that was left of the chariot, was not only a wonderful example of vehicular construction, but must have been a masterpiece of artistic workmanship.