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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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it the end of the mountain range (Maspero, Ao/p« sur riuelqucspoints de (Irammaire ft (Vllintoirc, in tlie Zeiischri/1,1881, i)i). 54, 55), or probably on tlie site of Haifali ;thi n;ime itself suggesls tlie veneration with which Carniel was iuvesled from the earlirst times. Ililffim, the Egyptian lablafimu, is No. 43 in the lists of Thitiiiosis III. (Makiktti:, /ycsLislea Oeoijrnphhjues, p. 2G). Osbiirn liad recognised at the outset TaaiiaUu or ruaiiach on thelist of Slicahonq (Eijypt, her Tcflimoiuj In lite Truth, )). 158). Mcgiddo, the Legio of the Itoniiin period, has been identified since Robinsons time (Dihllcal 136 SrniA AT TEE BEOINNINQ OF THE EOTPTIAN CONQUEST. another at intervals in the bends of the valleys or on the heights, such asShunem, Kasuna, Anaharath, the two Aphuls, Cana,i and other places whichwe find mentioned on the triumphal lists, but of which, up to the present, thesites have not been fixed. From this point the conqueror had a choice of three routes. One ran
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ACRE AND THE FRINGE OF REEFS SHELTERING THE ANCIENT PORT. in an oblique direction to the west, and struck the Mediterranean near Acre, leaving on the left the promontory of Carmel, with the sacred town, Eosh-Qodshu, planted on its slope.** Acre was the first port where a fleet could find safe anchorage after leaving the mouths of the Nile, and whoever was able to make himself master of it had in his hands the key of Syria, for it stood in the same commanding position with regard to the coast as that held by Megiddo in respect of the interior. Its houses were built closely together on a spit of rock which projected boldly into the sea, while fringes of reefs formed for it a kind of natural breakwater, behind which ships could find Researches, vol. ii. p. 330) with Khurbet-Lejiin, and more especially with the little mound knownby the name of Tell-el-Mutesallim. Conder proposed to place its site more to the east, in the valleyof the Jordan, at Khiirbet-el-Mujeddah (Megiddo, in the Falest

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