Battle
Prior to the battle, the Sea Peoples had sacked the Hittite vassal state of Amurru which was located close to the border of the Egyptian Empire. This gave the pharaoh time to make preparations for the expected onslaught by the invaders. As Ramesses III notes in an inscription from his mortuary temple at Medinet Habu: "I equipped my frontier in Zahi (Djahy) prepared before them." The Sea Peoples' "land forces were moving south along the Levantine coast and through Palestine when they were confronted and stopped by Ramesses' forces at the Egyptian frontier in Djahi in the region of later Phoenicia" writes the Hittitologist Trevor Bryce.
Ramesses III refers to his battle with the Sea Peoples in stark, uncompromising terms:
- "The charioteers were warriors, and all good officers, ready of hand. Their horses were quievering in their every limb, ready to crush the countries under their feet...Those who reached my boundary, their seed is not; their heart and soul are finished forever and ever."
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