[Cronos]

Interesting piece of history

Kadesh (Kades in Hittite -- "desh" means land in Iranic/indic languages) was an ancient city probably set up by the Mittani (an Indo-european people)

Megiddo is on the trade route between Egypt and the land of the two rivers (Mesopotamia), so hence was a key place.

[Cronos]

Inscription from the temple at Karnak

[Cronos]

Thutmose III is one of the great rulers and conquerors of history. After hanging on grimly while his step-mother Hatshepsut ruled the kingdom he came to power, conquered Canaan, Syria, Nubia and large tracts of the western desert

[Cronos]

What were the reasons for this? probably because of the Hyksos, the Semitic peoples who conquered Egypt in the 1600s BC (related to the time of the Israelites in Egypt?)

Thutmose ruled from 1479 to 1424 BC

he was a part of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. The founder of this dynasty, Ahmose I (Mose - Moses?) ruled from 1550 to 1525 BC and was the one who broke the power of the Semitic Hyksos. The Hyksos had conquered Egypt a hundred odd years earlier because they (the Hyksos) led in warfare technology, having composite bows, recurve bows and war chariots (borrowed from the Aryanic Hittites), mail shirts and a metal helmet

were they related to the warlike (and Semitic) Assyrians? pushed out by the invading Aryanic Mittani and Hittites?

Whichever way, this had an impact

[yarddog]

Didn’t Ramses the Great also fight a battle in the same area?

[Fiji Hill]

In his reference book A Dictionary of Battles (New York: Crowell, 1967), David Eggenberger wrote that the battle at Megiddo was the first battle in history according to the historical record available at the time. There have since been several battles at the site.

[CynicalBear]

And Christ has already come and destroy the armies at Armageddon but no one noticed, right?