By taking this risky route, the Egyptian forces were able to take their enemy by surprise at Megiddo, the fortress where the troops of the princes of Retjenu (as the Egyptians called the region of ...

Megiddo joined them, another important city because its location ... As the column stretched for several kilometers, the fortress of Tharu (Greek Sile) was marked as a meeting point, and from there, ...

Archaeologists excavating at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel proposed that new ceramic finds provide the first evidence for Egyptian forces stationed in Megiddo at the time of King Josiah's ...

Ancient cities were established there to serve as a fortress on the plain of Jezreel to guard a mountain pass. As Megiddo was built and rebuilt, one city upon the other, a mound or hill was formed.

At the fortress city of Megiddo, a high-ranking Canaanite family stashed jewelry in a beer jug and hid it in a courtyard’s corner under a bowl, possibly under a veil of cloth, Eran Arie of the ...

that’s why Tel Megiddo is here from the Bronze Age onwards, ” he said. The legionary fortress would have also served as “point zero” for development of Roman roads, aqueducts and other ...

“The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo” (Judges 5:19) From the dawn of history, Megiddo has played a central role in the most ...

According to certain interpretations of Jewish tradition, Megiddo is also the site where ... building that likely housed the commander of the fortress, were all revealed in the camp, which ...