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Ramesses III

assassinated c. 1153 BCE · 12th century BCE

Ramesses III was a pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the Egyptian New Kingdom. He defeated land and sea invasions by the Sea Peoples around 1177 BCE, preserving Egypt during the Late Bronze Age collapse. He was assassinated in a harem conspiracy around 1153 BCE, after which the New Kingdom declined under a series of weak successors.

Ramesses III
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Egyptian Empire New KingdomSocioeconomy, Military, Decline

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Land of PuntLibuMeshweshPhilistine Pentapolis

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