Battle of the Delta

Battle of the Nile Delta
Part of the Egyptian–Sea Peoples wars of the Late Bronze Age collapse

Sea Peoples in their ships during the battle with the Egyptians. Relief from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu.
DateBetween 1179[1] and 1175 BC[2]
Location
Eastern Nile Delta
Result Egyptian victory
Belligerents
New Kingdom of Egypt Sea Peoples
Commanders and leaders
Ramesses III Unknown
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Many killed and captured

The Battle of the Delta was a sea battle between Egypt and the Sea Peoples, circa 1175 BC, when the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses III repulsed a major sea invasion. The conflict occurred on the shores of the eastern Nile Delta and on the border of the Egyptian Empire in Syria, although precise locations of the battles are unknown. This major conflict is recorded on the temple walls of the mortuary temple of pharaoh Ramesses III at Medinet Habu.

  1. ^ The 8th year of Ramesses III, see Robert Drews, The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C., Third Edition, Princeton University Press, 2020, p. 51.
  2. ^ Beckman, Gary (2000). "Hittite Chronology" (PDF). Akkadica. 119–120: 19–32 [esp. p. 23 ]. ISSN 1378-5087. (The exact date of the battle is unknown and depends on whether Amenmesse had an independent reign over all Egypt or if it was subsumed within the reign of Seti II.)