Megiddo

Megiddo was a fortified Canaanite royal city guarding the pass into the Jezreel Valley, later held by Manasseh and rebuilt as one of Solomon's chariot cities. Deborah and Barak's victory over Sisera took place in its plain, and centuries later King Josiah was killed there confronting Pharaoh Necho, a death so mourned it became proverbial. The site is exceptionally well documented outside the Bible: Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III's siege of Megiddo around 1457 BC is recorded in detail on the walls of Karnak, making it one of the earliest battles in history with a surviving eyewitness account of troop movements and strategy.