ARCHAEOLOGY: Necho's Armies Pottery

In his days Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Necho killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 2 Kings 23:29

"This terse Biblical verse tells the story of the death of Josiah, the last great king of Judah, at the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II. Josiah's killing at Megiddo in 609 B.C. would spell doom for the Kingdom of Judah in the short term. In the long term, it would set off major end-of-the-world traditions in Judaism and Christianity linked

to the place where it all went down: the mound of Megiddo – better known as Armageddon.

Archaeologists working at Megiddo recently announced the discovery of an assemblage of Egyptian and Greek pottery dating to the seventh century BC, which they associate with the army of Pharaoh Necho who defeated King Josiah in 609 BC (2 Kgs 23:29–30). The Egyptian pottery is crudely made and poorly fired and was likely used for supplies for Necho’s army. 

The Greek pottery was likely used by Greek mercenaries whom
Necho had hired. The assemblage was discovered from 2016 to 2022 in an area (Area X) that had never before been excavated. 

The team concluded that the best explanation for this combination of pottery is that it was left by Necho’s army which was accompanied by Greek mercenaries. The book of Jeremiah seems to indicate that Greek troops from Lydia fought alongside Pharaoh Necho (Jer. 46:9).
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