The Capture of Joppa (Ancient Egypt's Trojan Horse)

In the reign of Thutmose III, the Egyptian general Djehuty led a siege at Joppa (Yappho / Yafa, in modern Tel Aviv). The enemy were resisting all attempts to break in. Until Djehuty had a cunning plan...

• Date c. 1465 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

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Anthony Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 2005.

Donald B. Redford, (1990). Egypt and Canaan in the New Kingdom (Vol. 4).

William K. Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003

Colleen Manassa, Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt, 2013.

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