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The Sea Peoples Invade: Ramesses III

On the timeline · around c. 1177 BCE · The Sea Peoples Invade: Ramesses III1,400 BCE1,350 BCE1,300 BCE1,250 BCE1,200 BCE1,150 BCE1,100 BCE1,050 BCE1,000 BCE

What happened

Pharaoh Ramesses III defeated a confederation of raiders known as the Sea Peoples, decisively at the Battle of the Delta around 1177 BCE. The war was so costly that it drained the royal treasury, and Egypt entered a long decline.

Why it matters

Egypt survived the wave of invasions and upheaval that toppled other Bronze Age civilizations, but never fully recovered its imperial strength.

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