The royal Canaanite city of Gezer is…

The royal Canaanite city of Gezer is often mentioned in the Egyptian records of the New Kingdom, beginning with Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III, the greatest of the Egyptian conquerors.

Gezer in the Middle Bronze Age (first half of the second millennium BCE) had become a major city, surrounded by a massive stone wall and towers, protected by a five meter high earthen rampart covered with plaster.

Two towers fortify the wooden city gate, near the southwestern corner of the wall.

Cultic remains discovered at the site include a row of ten monolithic stone steles, the tallest of which is three meters high, and a large, square, stone basin.

The city is destroyed in a fire, presumably in the wake of a campaign by the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III.