The hits were few and far between for many years - Chariots of Fire here, Gandhi over there, Four Weddings and a Funeral looming tall in the middle distance.
Kadesh is sometimes said to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, with thousands of chariots on both sides.
The gladiatorial fights, against men, tigers and armed chariots, are authentically savage and bloody.
Produced during the lifetime of William Shakespeare and John Donne, it has long been viewed as the most elegantly written and poetic of the many English translations, and has given the language some of its best-known phrases: "lamb to the slaughter", "skin of our teeth", "chariots of fire".
In a perspex cabinet two delicate racing chariots careen across the surface of a black Apullian mug of the fourth century BC.
Chariots also spread throughout Europe.
Three nearby chambers one holding more than 1,300 ceramic figures representing a smaller, complementary force of foot soldiers, chariots, and cavalry, one with 68 members of what probably represents an elite command unit, and one that is empty were also discovered in the 1970s.
Chariots of c. 300 bc found in a burial at Liu-li-ho, in Peking municipality, have dished wheels but otherwise are similar in construction to Celtic chariots in western Europe.
By the middle of the 2nd millennium bc, Egyptian, Hittite, and Palestinian chariots were extraordinarily light and flexible vehicles, the wheels and tires in particular exhibiting great sophistication in design and fabrication.
They bred horses, which they used for riding and pulling chariots in warfare and sport.
