I will try to finish off my Israel trip from July today. I have several more postings to go. This is Tel Megiddo from day 3 of the tour with James. Because of its strategic location, Megiddo was the site of several battles. It was inhabited from approximately 5000 to 350 BCE. It is an enormous area with lots of buildings that are still there enough to see what they once were!
Megiddo was important in the ancient world. It guarded the western branch of a narrow pass on the most important trade route of the ancient Fertile Crescent, linking Egypt with Mesopotamia and Anatolia and known today as Via Maris.
Tel Megiddo is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley about 30 kilometers southeast of Haifa near the depopulated Palestinian town of Lajjun and subsequently Kibbutz Megiddo.
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