Because of its strategic location, Megiddo was the site of several battles. It was inhabited from approximately 7000 BCE to 586 BCE, though the first significant remains date to the Chalcolithic ...

Tel Megiddo was the location where Josiah, the king of Judah, famously fought the Battle of Megiddo in 609 B.C. The Jewish leader was defeated and killed by the army of Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II.

In the light of current restrictions, a virtual tour is provided on the park’s website which rightly makes much of Megiddo’s strategic importance. Location was all.

Megiddo joined them, another important city because its location in the Jezreel Valley (in Israel) allowed it to control the Philistine Route (later renamed the Via Maris or Way of the Sea in the ...

Remarkable new discoveries have been unearthed from an excavation of a Roman legion camp in Tel Megiddo, located in northern Israel and hailing from the days of Roman occupation of the "province ...

Although most of biblical Megiddo had been excavated since 1920, there was one site that had not yet been researched. The archaeologists identified a promising spot known as Area X at Megiddo.