Editing Siege (section)

===Depictions===
The earliest representations of siege warfare have been dated to the [[Protodynastic Period of Egypt]], {{circa|3000&nbsp;BC}}. These show the symbolic destruction of city walls by divine animals using hoes.

The first siege equipment is known from Egyptian tomb reliefs of the 24th century BC, showing Egyptian soldiers storming [[Canaan]]ite town walls on wheeled siege ladders. Later Egyptian temple reliefs of the 13th century BC portray the violent [[siege of Dapur]], a Syrian city, with soldiers climbing scale ladders supported by archers.

[[Assyria]]n palace reliefs of the 9th to 7th centuries BC display sieges of several Near Eastern cities. Though a simple battering ram had come into use in the previous millennium, the Assyrians improved siege warfare and used huge wooden tower-shaped battering rams with archers positioned on top.

In ancient China, sieges of city walls (along with naval battles) were portrayed on [[bronze]] [[hu (vessel)|'hu' vessels]], like those found in [[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]] in 1965, which have been dated to the [[Warring States period]] (5th to 3rd centuries BC).<ref name="needham volume 5 part 6 446">Needham, Volume 5, Part 6, 446.</ref>