- The Battle of Megiddo (c.1,457 BCE) was a battle between the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III against a coalition of Canaanite Kingdoms.
- It was held near the Megiddo Pass which is situated in the Carmel Mountains in Galilee, modern Israel.
Description
- Tuthmose III won the battle and the defeated Canaanite armies who escaped into the city of Megiddo.
- The Pharaoh laid siege to Megiddo and occupied it after about eight months.
- This gave Egypt an Empire all along the Levant, stretching from Syria in the north, all the way down to Nubia in the south. It was the greatest Empire under any Egyptian Pharaoh.
- The description of this battle was written in Hieroglyphs on the walls of the Temple of the Temple of Amun at Karnak.
Megiddo, Israel