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Egyptian king Necho II of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty marches his army north toward Syria in support of Ashur-uballit II and the last remnants of the Assyrian army under his command at Harran. In an unsuccessful effort to forestall Necho's advance, Josiah, the king of Judah, engages the Egyptians in battle at Megiddo, where he is slain. Necho begins a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea, which is apparently not completed until the reign of the Persian king Darius I. Herodotus reports that a Phoenician fleet commissioned by Necho has circumnavigated Africa.
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