Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Siege of Megiddo
    Unavailable
    Siege of Megiddo
    Unavailable
    Siege of Megiddo
    Ebook24 pages14 minutes

    Siege of Megiddo

    By Scriptural Research Institute

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Thutmose III was the king of Egypt between circa 1458 and 1425 BC, after inheriting the throne from his father Thutmose II and his aunt Hatshepsut, however, after Hatshepsut died Thutmose III claimed to have been the king of Egypt throughout Hatshepsut's reign, meaning his regal years began circa 1479 BC when his father Thutmose II died. This attempt to erase Hatshepsut as a king of Egypt was likely not personal, as he did not attempt to usurp her authority during his life, but more likely an attempt to restore the respect for the kingship that appears to have been lost while Hatshepsut was on the throne. The graffiti of Hatshepsut having sex with a man, found near her mortuary temple clearly shows that she was not respected the way the previous god-like pharaohs had been, and Thutmose III was almost certainly trying to erase was many Egyptians viewed as a distasteful episode of their history. Ironically, her mortuary temple is viewed as one of the greatest architectural monuments of the New Kingdom and served as the bases of all later mortuary temples of the New Kingdom. Thutmose III did not attempt to erase Hatshepsut's existence from Egyptian history, just her kingship, and she was still spoken of fondly as the 'queen' and 'favorite wife of Thutmose II.'

    Her reign seems to have been one of contracting frontiers, as Egypt appears to have lost control of Syria early in her reign, which Thutmose III quickly reversed, launching an invasion of Syria within his first year on the throne. This was the legionary Siege of Megiddo, against the king of Kadesh and his Syrian allies, inscribed in detail in the Annals of Thutmose III at Karnak. The details of the battle inscribed at Karnak, were copied from Thutmose III's scribe Tjaneni's journal, and is a far more detailed account than the subsequent list of battles and plunder taken during Thutmose III's subsequent invasions of Northern Canaan and the Mitanni Empire in modern Syria, or his campaign against the Nubians.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScriptural Research Institute
    Release dateNov 13, 2020
    ISBN9781989852798
    Unavailable
    Siege of Megiddo

    Read more from Scriptural Research Institute

    Related to Siege of Megiddo

    Related ebooks

    Ancient History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      An Enigmatic empire Rises

      Feb 11, 2023

      An Enigmatic empire Rises
      11 min read

    • Article

      An Enigmatic empire Rises

      Feb 11, 2023

      An Enigmatic empire Rises
      11 min read

    • Article

      A Dynasty Of Despots

      Oct 27, 2022

      A Dynasty Of Despots
      9 min read

    • Article

      Hatshepsut’s Journey To The Top

      Nov 25, 2021

      Hatshepsut was born into one of the most famous dynasties to ever rule ancient Egypt: the 18th dynasty. Founded by Ahmose I around 1550 BC, this sprawling family tree would go on to include some of the most well-known pharaohs in history, including t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Bronze Age Power Players

      Aug 12, 2023

      Bronze Age Power Players
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Boy Behind The Mask

      Sep 28, 2023

      The Boy Behind The Mask
      5 min read

    • Article

      Egypt’s Most Powerful Women

      May 12, 2022

      Though it has been proposed that women did rule Egypt before the 12th Dynasty, Sobekneferu was the first female pharaoh of ancient Egypt to be confirmed by archaeological evidence. Among a small collection of surviving sources to bear her name and ro

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Foreign Affair

      Aug 13, 2022

      A Foreign Affair
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

      Oct 19, 2021

      Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II
      9 min read

    • Article

      The Storm God’s City

      Apr 9, 2024

      The Storm God’s City
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Woman King Hatshepsut

      Oct 6, 2023

      Hatshepsut was the daughter of a pharaoh (Thutmose I), sister and wife of a pharaoh (Thutmose II), and stepmother of a pharaoh (Thutmose III). However, she was not meant to be pharaoh herself. She was the Great Royal Wife, the chief consort of Thutmo

      7 min read

    • Article

      Michael Wood On…

      Mar 19, 2020

      I recently went up to the wet and windy Lancashire coast, with trains disrupted by floods beyond Preston, to talk to the wonderful Lytham St Annes Classical Association. It’s the biggest branch of the Classical Association in the UK, with almost 600

      3 min read

    • Article

      Akhenaten The Heretic Pharaoh

      Jul 18, 2019

      Akhenaten The Heretic Pharaoh
      9 min read

    • Article

      Millawanda

      Jun 2, 2023

      Millawanda
      6 min read

    • Article

      Preliminaries

      Oct 19, 2021

      Ancient Egypt’s history spans over 3000 years. This gives an editor plenty to choose from when trying to decide on a topic. While I’m interested in most of its incredibly long history, I decided to pick a period that I initially knew relatively littl

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Rulers of Foreign Lands

      Aug 9, 2018

      The Rulers of Foreign Lands
      12 min read

    • Article

      Greeks On The Nile

      Feb 14, 2022

      THE UNUSUAL CASE OF NAUCRATIS A faience flask decorated with lotuses and figures and dated to the third through second century BC. This vessel was made by an artisan living in Naucratis, however the motifs are distinctly Egyptian (albeit with a touch

      5 min read

    • Article

      The First Crusade Had Been Defeated?

      Apr 22, 2021

      Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. Author of The First Crusade: The Call From The East, and The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World Who w

      5 min read

    • Article

      Tutankhamun

      Oct 6, 2022

      Tutankhamun
      12 min read

    • Article

      Theme The Middle Kingdom

      Oct 19, 2021

      Theme The Middle Kingdom
      6 min read

    • Article

      Constantine VII

      Nov 11, 2023

      While Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was born in 905 and crowned co-emperor at the age of three, various intrigues kept him from being sole ruler for nearly forty years (r. 945–959). These circumstances, and what must have been a powerful natural te

      1 min read

    • Article

      The City Of Constantinople And Its Orbit The New Rome

      May 5, 2023

      In AD 293, the emperor Diocletian divided the Empire in half. He believed that two emperors (augusti) with two deputies (caesares) would better manage an unwieldy empire. Therefore, he appointed Maximian as co-emperor and augustus of the west, with h

      3 min read

    Reviews for Siege of Megiddo

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words