Tuthmosis I of the 18th Dynasty is considered, presently, to have ruled 1504-1492 BC. This was well after the Thera eruption and at a time the Hittites weren't doing great, also the Minoans seem to have been sharing Crete with the incoming Greeks. Whatever was going on in Libya or Nubia, the Pharaoh didn't care. His eyes were on Canaan. Problem: desert.
This Pharaoh figured rather than bypassing the desert, he should build a land route. Yesterday was announced a fortified waystation: Tell el-Kharouba. Latinbros will know it as the via maris; Egyptians called it ḫꜣt Ḥr. (The "King's Road" seems to be the road right through Sinai to Eilat.) It's dated to Tuthmoses 'coz pottery got his cartouche on it.
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