Everyone talks about how brutal it was to be a Roman soldier. But nobody talks about what it was like to be an Egyptian one. In Egypt, boys started military training at five years old. They learned the bow, the spear, and the khopesh — a curved blade unlike anything else in the ancient world. By the time they were twenty, they weren't just soldiers. They were specialists. And Egypt didn't send them to stand in a line and wait. They gave them the most advanced weapon in the ancient world: the war