Amarna Letter 244 To the king, my lord, and my Sun-god, say: Thus Biridiya [ruler of Megiddo], the faithful servant of the king. At the two feet of the king, my lord, and my Sun-god, seven and seven times I fall. Let the king know that ever since the archers returned to Egypt, Lab’ayu [ruler [...]

Noted for the Amarna Letters. What these letters reveal is that Egypt controlled this region. What it masks is that from our perspective reading these texts is that a small site has as much importance as a large site. The Egyptian kings divided and conquered, wedging themselves and fracturing them so that individual cities report [...]