The Taking of Joppa

This tale is traditionally regarded as a purely literary account of the conquest set in the wake of Thutmose III's campaigning in Syria.

Despite the literary tradition and the character of its telling, the excavators of Jaffa have recently argued that a Late Bronze Age destruction of the Egyptian garrison, dated to between 1456 and 1400 BC, may have formed the historical basis of this tale.

The excavators would attribute the destruction to the Canaanite insurgency during which the Egyptians lost their fortress within a short time after Thutmose III established the garrison.

The story therefore relates the events of the retaking of Jaffa probably immediately preceding the campaign against Aphek and not Thutmose III's conquest or taking of the site as some have argued.

The tactic of deception used in the Trojan Horse tale in the Odyssey and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in One Thousand and One Nights are reminiscent of the tactic of deception used by Djehuty in the Taking of Joppa story.