Ramesses III repels the Sea Peoples

Name: Ramesses III repels the Sea Peoples
Start: -1175
Location: Nile Delta

c. 1175 BC · Nile Delta · Africa · War

Egypt holds firm as the Bronze Age world collapses

Ramesses III repels the Sea Peoples — Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Pharaoh Ramesses III defeated the fleet of the Sea Peoples, who had ravaged the Hittite kingdom and Levantine cities. Egypt survived, but the invasions were part of the Late Bronze Age collapse in the eastern Mediterranean.

State: New Kingdom of Egypt

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