The Influence of Egypt. The Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BC)

The early Late Bronze Age (1500-1300 BCE) culture of Jordan is a direct continuation from the preceding Middle Bronze Age. However, the political world had been completely altered by the reunification of Egypt, and the conquest of much of the Southern Levant under the warrior pharaohs of the Imperial Eighteenth Dynasty. Initially Jordan stood outside the Egyptian orbit, but the Thutmosid conquerors probably brought the main Jordan valley settlements (Nimrin, Deir Alla and Pella) into the New ..