Battle of Djahy - Aftermath

Aftermath

While the battle ended with a great Egyptian victory, Egypt's war with the Sea Peoples was not yet over. The sea Peoples would next attack Egypt proper with their naval fleet in an unsuccessful assault. The next attack, which came from the sea, occurred around the mouth of the Nile river. The invaders were eventually defeated by Ramesses in a great sea battle in which many of the foreign aggressors were either killed by hails of Egyptian arrows, or dragged from their boats and killed on the banks of the Nile river by Ramesses III's well prepared forces. Although the pharaoh defeated them, he could not eventually prevent them from settling in the eastern parts of his empire decades after his death. With this conflict, and a subsequent second battle with invading Libyan tribes in Year 11 of Ramesses III, Egypt's treasury became so depleted that she would never fully recover her imperial power. The Egyptian Empire over Asia and Nubia would be permanently lost less than 80 years after Ramesses III's reign under Ramesses XI, the last king of Egypt's New Kingdom.