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Well, you might be in good company regarding the music.  The Russian side tended to bring along musical instruments, bells, etc, to stiffen the troops enough to stand a load of Teutonic Knights charging down upon them.  There is even mention of one battle being won by the music from a Russian organ.

Vunder Veapons indeed!

A shekel for an old ex-leper?

Does anyone else remember how we used to laugh at the gerontocracy of the Soviet Union?

It seems unlikely that it was a retreat in the conventional sense of the word - i.e. somewhere you go for rest and recouperation.  Nobody goes to the North Sinai for that ...

More likely to have been the opposite - somewhere the pharaoh was based when attacking.

Ahar me hearties

An LP of Prokofiev's evocative music for the film was one of the first in my collection, I suppose I have to think of this as being in the fantasy section now.  

Quote from: Justin Swanton on Today at 08:15:23 AMOf interest. I presume the copper ingots were their equivalent of money?

Hence the expression "Spare a copper, guv'nor".

Depends what you call money, I suppose.  I can't really see a thriving money economy down the fish market based on 60lb small change.  But if you say standard units of exchange for barter, maybe.

Looking around a bit, it seems copper ingots were used as money around the Aegean before the invention of true money, according to this article.

Quote from: Justin Swanton on Today at 08:15:23 AMOf interest. I presume the copper ingots were their equivalent of money?

I think the normal interpretation would be raw material. It doesn't say how big these are but later bronze age ones would be hard to carry round.