Editing Siege (section)

===Siege accounts===
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Although there are numerous ancient accounts of cities being sacked, few contain any clues to how this was achieved. Some popular tales existed on how the cunning heroes succeeded in their sieges. The best-known is the [[Trojan Horse]] of the [[Trojan War]], and a similar story tells how the [[Canaan]]ite city of [[Jaffa|Joppa]] was conquered by the Egyptians in the 15th century BC. The Biblical [[Book of Joshua]] contains the story of the miraculous [[Battle of Jericho]].

A more detailed historical account from the 8th century BC, called the [[Piye|Piankhi stela]], records how the [[Kingdom of Kush|Nubians]] laid siege to and conquered several Egyptian cities by using battering rams, archers, and slingers and building [[causeway]]s across moats.