The Canaanite seaport of Jaffa is mentioned…
1449 BCE to 1438 BCE
The Canaanite seaport of Jaffa is mentioned in an Egyptian letter from 1440 BCE, glorifying its conquest by Pharaoh Thutmose III, whose general, Djehuty had hid armed Egyptian warriors in large baskets and sent the baskets as a present to the city's governor.
Egypt has made the city a provincial capital.
The city is also mentioned in the Amarna letters under its Egyptian name Ya-Pho, (Ya-Pu, EA 296, l.33).
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