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Excavations have revealed just how advanced the city had
become. Extensive apartments adjoined the palace and included a
seashell-paved room, thought to be for bathing. The royal treasury gave
archeologists a wonderful cache. It contained gold vessels, jewelry and
carved ivories displaying the richness of Canaanite art. The temple of the
city measured eleven metres by ten metres and had two fine pillars
flanking the portico.
Thutmose III's merit list of conquered cities placed Kadesh at the
head of the list, followed by Megiddo. Kadesh was a very special city
and superior to Megiddo. Yet, its exact location is uncertain. There are a
number of cities in Syro-Palestine called Kadesh. These are Kadesh on
the Orontes, the one-time Amalekite stronghold Kadesh-Barnea or Ein-
Mishpat in the lower Negev Desert and Merbah Kadesh in the wilderness
of Zin. 123
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 of Karnak.
It is widely thought that the Palestine Kadesh plundered by
Thutmose III is Jerusalem. The name Kadesh actually means Holy City
and many biblical references identify it directly with Jerusalem. 124 For
example, in about 700BCE Isaiah said of the people of Jerusalem: 125
For they call themselves of the holy city.
This leads us to believe that Jerusalem was a holy sanctuary from
times pre-dating 1480BCE and probably also pre-dating about 1800BCE
when Abraham met King Melchizedek there. Chapter 11 investigates
King Melchizedek the Righteous in more detail.
Therefore, Kadesh the Holy City is most probably Jerusalem.
This would certainly be consistent with Jerusalem's position as the most
important city in Palestine, where Salma the Son of Light was
worshipped. As we have seen, Thutmose III plundered the legendary
treasure of King Solomon here in 1480BCE, at least four hundred years
before the conventionally accepted time.
After the 1480BCE conquest, Thutmose III and his immediate
successors firmly introduced the mystery cults of Isis and Osiris
throughout Palestine. 126 These cults ritualized Isis' search for her
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