Kadesh on the Orontes River

Thutmose III did not campaign as far as the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River in northern Syria where Ramses II later won a major battle. The other two sites of Kadesh seem to be little more than locations on the map at the time of Thutmose III. Sadly we cannot check his diary that recorded the campaign every day on a leather scroll in the temple of Amon, however he did carve the Annals of the Battle of Megiddo on the walls of the Temple ofKamak. 

The dislodged Hyksos re-established in a S nian town that they also called Kadesh or Holy City. This was Kadesh on the Orontes River. Today the Orontes River forms part of the border between Lebanon and Syria just above Damascus. 

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