Major conflict1479 BCE

Battle of Megiddo (Thutmose III)

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Megiddo · Canaan · Palestine

Estimated casualties

10Ksingle estimate · no range published

Thutmose III's decisive victory against a Canaanite coalition, establishing Egyptian dominance in the Levant. This battle is one of the earliest well-documented military engagements.

Belligerents2

Egypt
Canaanite city-states

ON THE MAPEgyptian New Kingdom

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Megiddo (Thutmose III) (1479 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/megiddo-first · Sources & methodology