ABSTRACT
Thutmose III's exhausted Egyptian soldiers found that the fighting was far from over after their day of slaughter on the Jezreel Plain. Canaanite leaders opposing their pharaoh had escaped the battlefield and fled into the nearby city of Megiddo, a key location along the trade route between Egypt and the fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. It would take another seven months of operations before the battle reached its ultimate end when that objective fell in 1279 Be.
