High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The scythed chariot was a war chariot with a blade(s) mounted on both ends of the axle, employed in ancient times. The scythed chariot was a modified war chariot. The blades extended horizontally for a meter on its sides. The Greek general Xenophon (430?354 BC), an eyewitness at the battle of Cunaxa tells of them: "These had thin scythes extending at an angle from the axle and also under the driver's seat, turned towards the ground". Dismissing completely 17th to 19th century ideas of a Canaanite, Assyrian, Indian or Macedonian origin, Nefiodkin also refutes Xenophon's attribution of scythed chariots to the first Persian king Cyrus, pointing to their notable absence in the invasion of Greece (480?479 BC) by one of his successors, Xerxes I. Instead, he argues that the Persians introduced scythed chariots sometime later during the Greco-Persian Wars, between 467 BC and 458 BC, as a response to their experience fighting against Greek heavy infantry.

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