egun to fight. The
Egyptians [in Nubia] are driving down their cattle from the shelter of
the stronghold which thy father Thothmes [I] built to keep back the
tribes of the South and the tribes of the Eastern Desert." The last part
of the envoy's message seems to contain a statement that some of the
Egyptians who had settled in Nubia had thrown in their lot with the
Sudani folk who were in revolt. The text continues: "When His Majesty
heard these words he became furious like a panther (or leopard), and he
said: I swear by Ra, who loveth me, and by my father Amen, king of the
gods, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, that I will not leave any
male alive among them. Then His Majesty sent a multitude of soldiers
into Nubia, now this was his first war, to effect the overthrow of all
those who had rebelled against the Lord of the Two Lands, and of all
those who were disaffected towards His Majesty. And the soldiers of His
Majesty arrived in the miserable land of Kash, and overthrew these
savages, and according to the command of His Majesty they left no male
alive, except one of the sons of the miserable Prince of Kash, who was
carried away alive with some of their servants to the place where His
Majesty was. His Majesty took his seat on his throne, and when the
prisoners whom his soldiers had captured were brought to him they were
placed under the feet of the good god. Their land was reduced to its
former state of subjection, and the people rejoiced and their chiefs
were glad. They ascribed praise to the Lord of the Two Lands, and they
glorified the god for his divine beneficence. This took place because of
the bravery of His Majesty, whom his father Amen loved more than any
other king of Egypt from the very beginning, the King of the South and
North, Aakheperenra, the son of Ra, Thothmes (II), whose crowns are
glorious, endowed with life, stability, and serenity, like Ra for ever."

CAPTURE OF MEGIDDO BY THOTHMES III

The following is the official account of the Battle of Megiddo in Syria,
which was won by Thothmes III in the twenty-third year of his reign. The
narrative is taken from the Annals of Thothmes III. The king set out
from Thebes and marched into Syria, and received the submission of
several small towns, and having made his way with difficulty through the
hilly region to the south of the city of Megiddo, he camped there to
prepare for the battle. "Then the tents of His Majesty were pitched,