Note: Ramses III (reigned 1194-1163 bc), Egyptian king of the 20th Dynasty, a great military leader who repeatedly saved the country from invasion.The severity of these difficulties is stressed by the fact that the first known labor strike in recorded history occurred during Year 29 of Ramesses III's reign, when the food rations for the Egypt's favoured and elite royal tomb-builders and artisans in the village of Set Maat her imenty Waset could not be provisioned. The heavy cost of these battles slowly exhausted Egypt's treasury and contributed to the gradual decline of the Egyptian Empire in Asia. In Year 8 of his reign, the Sea Peoples, including Peleset, Denyen, Shardana, Weshwesh of the sea, and Tjekker, invaded Egypt by land and sea. All rights reserved.ĭuring his long tenure in the midst of the surrounding political chaos of the Greek Dark Ages, Egypt was beset by foreign invaders (including the so-called Sea Peoples and the Libyans) and experienced the beginnings of increasing economic difficulties and internal strife which would eventually lead to the collapse of the Twentieth Dynasty. Ramses III was the last of the great rulers of ancient Egypt his death was followed by centuries of weakness and foreign domination.
Egyptian records tell of a strike by workers at Ramses's burial site and of a plot against the king near the end of his reign. His victories are depicted on the walls of his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu, near Luxor. Ramses was also a builder of temples and palaces in the tradition of his 19th-Dynasty predecessor, Ramses II.
In his 11th year he again repelled an attempted Libyan invasion.
In the fifth year of his reign, Ramses defeated an attack by the Libyans from the west, and two years later he routed invaders known as the Sea Peoples. Ramses III (reigned 1194-1163 bc), Egyptian king of the 20th Dynasty, a great military leader who repeatedly saved the country from invasion.