In Pharaoh’s Footsteps

Horses whinny softly, stamping nervously as their riders mount up in the chilly predawn air. The day’s mission looms ahead: a dangerous trek straight up the Wadi ’Ara and through the narrow Musmus Pass, then a quick dash across the Plain of Esdraelon to engage the enemy controlling ancient Megiddo, a city on a hill that commands the main road from Egypt to the Euphrates.

The year is 1479 B.C., and the army marching on Canaanite Megiddo is Egyptian, led by Pharaoh Thutmose III.