Interlude: The General Djehuty and His Tricks.
1475 – 1450 BCE. Sometime in the reign of Thutmose III, a siege took place at Joppa (Tel Aviv, Israel). The Egyptians, never quite mastering siege-craft, were starving their enemy out, when an unusual opportunity presented itself. Thinking quickly, the wily Djehuty made a cunning plan…
Bibliography
- Anthony Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 2005
- William K. Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003
- Colleen Manassa, Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt, 2013
