Joshua's Trumpets

We know exactly what the military trumpets looked like and sounded like. One of these trumpets which was found in the tomb of YmnTwtAnkh has been sounded twice. Once in 1933 and again in 1939 when it was recorded - www.ancientnile.co.uk/funtrumpet.php

You will need to download this zipfile - only takes seconds - and then listen to the sound of a trumpet that was played during the life of JOSHUA - the Pharaoh DJOSER HEPREW SETEPENRE.

When we look at historical facts, then I think it is quite clear that it wasn't the sound of trumpets or shouting that brought down the walls of Akhetaten, but the onslaught of the Egyptian General Djoser's forces acting on behalf of the 'resurrected' King David (YmnTwtAnkh).

Maggie Lyons {Freelance writer and editor who studied muic at Trinity College of Music London and University of Wales; programme annotator of the National Symphony Ochestra, Washington, DC], writes in a magazine article:
"It is possible that Tutankhamun's trumpets were played in battle. In ancient times, trumpet signals were used in battle because their piercing sound could be clearly heard over great distances and above the din of fighting.

Indeed the gods shown on the trumpet have a military association as we know that divisions of the army were named after them.
......The trumpets may have been used at rituals celebrating sunrise and sunset."

"Both trumpets are decorated with images of the ancient Egyptian gods Ptah, Amen-Ra, and Ra-Harakhty, and Tutankamun wearing the Blue Crown and holding a sceptre."

These trumpets could be the very ones that are quoted in Joshua 6:20, and just to hear one gives us some idea of the sounds heard on that momentous day. This should send a tingle through the veins of any sensitive reader who listens to this ancient trumpet.
The walls of Akhetaten were erected quickly and are nothing like the regular Egyptian Stone blocks. They would have been very easy to topple.

I imagine that each trumpet had its own unique sound - being made of different materials suggests this - and when sounded it was immediately recognised as a call to arms or attack for 'Ptah' Brigade, 'Amen-Ra' Brigade, or Twt's Own Light Foot to go forward."