Eric Cline

And so Allenby read his history, realized what Thutmose III had done,

And did it himself with the same results.

The Turks and Germans were not expecting him to come up that way.

He captured Megiddo in 1918 with nobody killed at all.

A couple of horses died.

They ran them into the ground, but very successful battle.

And later, after he had been, I guess, given a title, and he became Lord Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, they actually asked him, do you want to be Allenby of Armageddon?

And he kind of laughed and said, no, all the cranks and chrism done will come out of the walls for that one.

So Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe.

And he met up.

with Breasted in Cairo in 1919.

And Breasted asked Allenby, how did you know to repeat what Thutmose III had done?

And Allenby looked at Breasted and said, well, I had read your book.

Because in 1906, Breasted had translated into English that record that Thutmose III had left on the wall in Egypt.

And so Allenby had been able to read it and therefore redo the same tactics, which leads me to, you know, George Santayana says, you know, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.

I would say those who do study history can repeat it.

if you want to.

So when Breasted was looking around for a site to excavate, he met up with Allenby, and Allenby said, well, why don't you dig Megiddo?

You've got the Battle of Thutmose III.

Why don't you find evidence for the battle?