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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
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