Although swords are the most famous hand-to-hand weapon
in the Western world, they were less common in the ancient Near East. One reason
for this is that they were more difficult to construct, as the entire blade
needed to be of metal rather than simply attaching a head to a piece of wood
(as was done with a mace or an axe). The most common sword in Egypt was the
sickle-sword (khopesh sword), which looked like a harvesting sickle
(somewhat like a scimitar) and was used during the Middle and New Kingdom . . .(Charlie Trimm, Fighting for the King and the Gods:
A Survey of Warfare in the Ancient Near East [Resources for Biblical Study
88], Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017], 516)
Here are figures 7.3 and 7.4 from ibid., 518:
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