11-24-2011, 06:55 PM
A link between the khopesh and kopis is usually put forth as being the other way around, since the khopesh is the much older weapon; it was developed in the 3rd millennium BC in the Middle East. But Jeroen Zuiderwijk and others say that the kopis evolved separately, from enlarged knives. Even the names are only coincidentally similar -- kopis is Greek, meaning approximately "cutter," and I've always heard khopesh means [shaped like a] "foreleg."
Dan D'Silva
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Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
Join the Horde! - http://xerxesmillion.blogspot.com/
