This is my portrayal of an ancient Egyptian archer. In the Egyptian military, archers could be indigenous Egyptians (aka Kemetians) like this gentleman here or mercenaries hired from the “Land of the Bow” (or what we now call Nubia) further up the Nile. In either case, their bows would have been what are called self bows, or bows made from one piece of wood, before the Hyksos brought in the composite bow (made from multiple pieces of wood) when they invaded northern Egypt from the Middle East around 1700 BC.
The white diagonal straps over this Egyptian archer’s body are referenced from an Old Kingdom tomb relief that probably came from the Giza area, and his basket-like quiver is based on one from the Middle Kingdom uncovered at the site of Deir el-Bahri near modern Luxor. In retrospect, the arrow came out longer than I intended, but I suppose really long arrows could have always existed.