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their having been there. No fragments of pottery, no bones of
the numbers of animals that would have been required to feed
such a population, no hearths, not a single tent stake,
NOTHING.

There is also no evidence that Joshua was a real person. Many
of the cities he is claimed to have conquered did not even
exist at the time he was supposedly rampaging through the
'Holy Land'. Joshua is supposed to have fought a major battle
at Jericho where "the walls came tumbling down". Now Jericho
was one of the earliest agricultural settlements in the

"Fertile Crescent". The springs in the area had attracted
people since paleolithic times, when hunter gatherers
congregated there. Neolithic peoples built a town there and,
since it was on an earthquake fault, the walls came tumbling
down on several occasions. Archaeological evidence indicates
that the town had been abandoned for some time prior to about
1200 BCE when Joshua supposedly attacked it. Nor has
archaeology found the sort of evidence that would indicate an
attack by hostile forces, i.e. arrowheads or other weapons of
the sort found at the ruins of Troy.

What has been determined from Archaeology, inscriptions, clay
tablet and papyrus records is that during the 15th century
BCE, the entire eastern Mediterranean coast, the Levant,
including the area of Canaan, was firmly under Egyptian
control all the way to the Hittite Empire.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/E
gypt_1450_BC.svg/666px-Egypt_1450_BC.svg.png

Egypt had been trading with the northern empires of Syria,
Anatolia and Mesopotamia since the early bronze age. Those

trade routes were a source of income for those controlling
them and that was a source of conflict in the region.

Levantine trade routes, ca. 1300 BCE

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Ancient
_Levant_routes.png