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"You have advanced to the Classical Age through the Creations of Ptah."
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Ptah is an Egyptian Classical Age minor god in Age of Mythology. He is available to worshipers of Ra and Set.

Attributes

God Power

Name	Description
Shifting Sands	Teleports a group of units anywhere in player's Line of Sight on the map.

Technology

Name	Description
Scalloped Axe	Axemen do 15% more damage.
Leather Frame Shield	Spearmen have 15% less pierce
Electrum Bullets	Slingers have +1 divine attack.
Shaduf	Reduces Farm cost by 50% and build time by 50%.

Myth Unit

Name	Description
Wadjet	Regenerating cobra that shoots venom at enemies.

Gameplay

Ptah offers a wide range of upgrades that benefit both the economy and military. His technologies upgrade each Barracks unit in some way, providing a noticeable boost to Classical Age combat. Axemen and Slingers gain increased attack while Spearmen take reduced damage from ranged units. Ptah also aids the economy by decreasing the cost of farms and enabling them to be built faster. His god power can be used to make a deadly early rush, move away enemy units or take Laborers out of danger. His myth unit, the Wadjet, is best used defensively.

Mythology

"The cult center of Ptah was at Memphis, one of the older cities of ancient Egypt, and his importance grew as that city became the capital for many dynasties. He was usually depicted as a shaven-headed mummy holding a scepter or working with tools. He may have originally been a fertility god, and for a time was held to be the creator of all gods and religious practices. As other cults and gods rose in importance, he became a protector of the arts and crafts, a shaper of all things."
In-game compendium

Trivia

In the original game, he is incorrectly depicted with a human-like skin color. In Retold, his skin color is correctly changed to green.

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-{{Quote|You have advanced to the Classical Age under the Protection of Bast.|Age up text}}
+{{Quote|You have advanced to the Classical Age through the Creations of Ptah.|Age up text}}
-Bast is a Classical Age Egyptian minor goddess in Age of Mythology. She is available to Isis and Ra.
+Ptah is an Egyptian Classical Age minor god in Age of Mythology. He is available to worshipers of Ra and Set.
 ==Attributes==
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 ! Name !! Description
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-| [[File:egp-gp-eclipse.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Earthquake]] || The tremors caused by Earthquake deal massive amounts of damage to all buildings in the target area, but little to human units.
+| [[File:egp-gp-shifting-sands.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Shifting Sands]] || Teleports a group of units anywhere in player's [[Line of Sight]] on the map.
 |}
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 ! Name !! Description
 |-
-| [[File:egp-t-sacred-cats.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Flames of Typhon]] || Upgrades Chimerai to [[Chimera]] Tyrants, granting+40%.
+| [[File:egp-t-scalloped-axe.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Scalloped Axe]] || [[Axeman|Axemen]] do 15% more damage.
 |-
-| [[File:egp-t-adze-of-wepwawet.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Shafts of Plague]] || Archers have +10% attack, and their attacks deal poison damage.
+| [[File:egp-t-leather-frame-shield.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Leather Frame Shield]] || [[Spearman|Spearmen]] have 15% less pierce
 |-
-| [[File:egp-t-criosphinx.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Beast Slayer]] || [[Heroes]] have +200% attack vs. myth units. (Since Retold)
+| [[File:egp-t-electrum-bullets.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Electrum Bullets]] || [[Slinger]]s have +1 divine attack.
 |-
-| [[File:egp-t-hieracosphinx.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Beast Slayer]] || [[Heroes]] have +200% attack vs. myth units. (Since Retold)
+| [[File:egp-t-shaduf.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Shaduf]] || Reduces [[Farm]] cost by 50% and build time by 50%.
 |}
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 ! Name !! Description
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-| [[File:egp-m-sphinx.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Chimera]] || Three-headed monster that breathes fire all over its enemies.
+| [[File:egp-m-wadjet.webp|50px]] &nbsp; [[Wadjet]] || Regenerating cobra that shoots venom at enemies.
 |}
 ==Gameplay==
+Ptah offers a wide range of upgrades that benefit both the economy and military. His technologies upgrade each Barracks unit in some way, providing a noticeable boost to Classical Age combat. Axemen and Slingers gain increased attack while Spearmen take reduced damage from ranged units. Ptah also aids the economy by decreasing the cost of farms and enabling them to be built faster. His god power can be used to make a deadly early rush, move away enemy units or take Laborers out of danger. His myth unit, the Wadjet, is best used defensively.
-Bast's bonuses are economic; two of her technologies increase resource gather rates. Wood is usually not important to the Egyptians until the Heroic Age, when Chariot Archers and siege weapons (such as the Siege Tower and Catapult) appear, but in water maps, the Adze of Wepwawet is extremely important, as Laborers can gather extra wood for Fishing Ships or Kebenit and War Barge rushes. Similarly, Adze of Wepwawet is useful for followers of Nephthys and Osiris, as their Scorpion Man and Mummy myth units, respectively, cost wood. Furthermore, Bast's economic technologies synergize nicely with Thoth's Book of Thoth technology, allowing Laborers to gather resources even better than before.
-Her myth unit, the Sphinx, is a powerful Classical Age unit, especially when fully upgraded to a Hieracosphinx. These are fast and have excellent crush attack, meaning they can take out units and buildings alike in rushes. They get stronger in later ages and so are worth massing when the player has the resources.
-Bast's god power, Eclipse, can be used to increase her myth unit's attack further and make them move rapidly (7.2 speed), increasing their rushing potential and making them alarmingly dangerous. This god power also allows the player's own Monuments to generate favor more quickly, especially under Isis, as her Monuments generate favor even faster when empowered. Eclipse can be saved for or used again in later ages to boost the attack of stronger myth units granted in later ages, such as Sekhmet's Scarabs, Horus' Avengers, or especially the Titan that the Egyptians otherwise cannot improve in any way.
 ==Mythology==
-{{Quote|A daughter of Ra, Bast was the goddess of the cat, considered a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. She was usually associated with the moon, perhaps because cat eyes can shine in moonlight. A special necropolis at her cult center in Bubastis held huge numbers of mummified cats. Together, Bast and the lioness-headed Sekhmet killed the great serpent Apep that tried to swallow Ra and turn the world into darkness.|In-game compendium}}
+{{Quote|The cult center of Ptah was at Memphis, one of the older cities of ancient Egypt, and his importance grew as that city became the capital for many dynasties. He was usually depicted as a shaven-headed mummy holding a scepter or working with tools. He may have originally been a fertility god, and for a time was held to be the creator of all gods and religious practices. As other cults and gods rose in importance, he became a protector of the arts and crafts, a shaper of all things.|In-game compendium}}
 ==Trivia==
+* In the original game, he is incorrectly depicted with a human-like skin color. In Retold, his skin color is correctly changed to green.
-* Originally, Bast had access to a technology called "Fertility" which decreased the time it took for Egyptian Villagers to train. Fertility was most likely removed due to being too much of a bonus, making the other Classical Age minor gods irrelevant and making Ra and Isis too powerful.
-* She holds a sistrum in her hand, which originated as a sacred percussion instrument in Ancient Egypt.
-* For her beta Retold portrait, the face was based on an African Wild Cat.
 ==List of Gods==