This article is about Kadesh in the lands of the Amurru, bordering on Damascus Syria up to Hammath; see also Kadesh (Israel) or Kedesh Kadesh (also Qadesh or Qadesh-on-the-Orontes) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes River. It is surmised by Kenneth Kitchen to be the ruins at Tell Nebi Mend, about kilometers ( mi) southwest of Homs near Al Qusayr in what is now western Syria but is located in the text of the inscriptions at the battle of Kadesh as near Tunip in the land of the Amurru. Kadesh was the target of military campaigns by most of the pharoahs of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and one of many outlying vassals won by the southerly encroachments of the Hittite Empire between 1500 and 1285 BCE. Between 1504 and 1492 BCE Thutmos