How the Battle of Kadesh Actually Happened - and more | Boring History For Sleep

How the Battle of Kadesh Actually Happened - and more | Boring History For Sleep How the Battle of Kadesh Actually Happened - and more Tonight we go to the plains beside the Orontes River, to the largest chariot battle in recorded human history, and we look past the propaganda carved into Egyptian temple walls to understand what modern historians believe actually happened. A young pharaoh in only his fifth year on the throne. Two enemy spies planting false information. A division destroyed in a surprise attack. A king suddenly, desperately alone, surrounded by enemy chariots. And sixteen years later, one of the oldest peace treaties in human history, born from a battle that neither side could actually win. This is a slow, calm journey through one of the ancient world's most dramatic and most misunderstood military events — the armies, the chariots, the deception, the crisis, and the peace that eventually followed. Dim your lights. The Orontes is still flowing past the quiet plains where thousands of chariots once met. We're here every night — new story, same pace, lights always low. ________________________________________ Tags: Battle of Kadesh, ancient Egypt war, Ramesses the Great, Egyptian military history, ancient chariot battle, Hittite Empire, ancient Egypt history for sleep, Egyptian pharaoh history, ancient warfare, history for sleep, sleep history podcast, ancient Egypt facts, oldest peace treaty, Bronze Age warfare, boring history sleep, ancient battles, Egyptian army, New Kingdom Egypt, ancient military history, Egypt Syria war