According to ancient Egyptian records they never lost a battle, they just kept "winning" closer and closer to home.

Pharoah: Here's my plan to keep you alive - 1. God is on my side 2. I am a total badass 3. I mean it, I am a total badass and everyone knows it

>Tried to save your country >Economy worsened, first recorded labour strike >Got assassinated in a harem conspiracy This dude is unlucky as hell.

I hope somebody talks about me the way Rameses III talks about Rameses III

Woman: *Thinking* I bet he's thinking about other girls! Man: *Thinking* Who the hell were the Sea Peoples??

Rameses III Describes Ego of Rameses III // Primary Source

Rameses: _Did I mention that I'm pretty great?_

Ah, that one time that a random group of people showed up seemly out of nowhere and almost completely derailed civilization. History is weird sometimes.

'ate egypt 'ate canaan 'ate bronze luv me boat luv invadin luv copper nuff said

Interesting the invasion of the sea people roughly coincides with the destruction of Troy and Mycenae.

90% of this is Rameses III promoting himself.

There’s one line from the beginning of a tablet uncovered from Knossos which says simply: “thus the watchers are guarding the coast”. I always find that ominous.

I was reading up on Ramesses III and apparently some historians believe that these accounts and a lot of the great works under him was due to insecurity and trying to affirm himself as supreme ruler He basically was given the misfortune of a ruling in a chaotic world with invasions, a crumbling economy, and climate change - all playing into each other. Not an enviable position.

*Drums* SEA PEOPLE SEA PEOPLE SEA PEOPLE LOOK LIKE SEA TALK LIKE PEOPLE

Your all here scared of ww3 or coronavirus and I'm heating just terrified for the day The Sea people return

I love quotations from the humblest Pharaoh!

Rameses III would never refer to himself as "Rameses the Third", because the ordinal numbers after the name were not used in Egypt. He would refer to himself as "My Incarnation" or he would use his throne name: Usermaatre Meriamun (this is a conventional Egyptological writing/pronunciation of it, back in the day they would pronounce it a bit differently). It's a minor detail, but it somewhat breaks the immersion.

Nice video lad. Just an interesting tid bit if folks are interested, it’s likely (based on artistic depictions) that Mycenaean Greeks served as mercenaries in the Egyptian Army. It strikes me as likely that they had at least something to do with the Sea People’s, especially as the Mainland Greek cities collapsed one by one- those soldiers had to go somewhere, and why not some of them having a go at their former employers in Egypt?

So fascinating to hear the thoughts of those from history rather than to hear someone's opinion of a pile of rock in the desert and what it was like then.. Such a fascinating site this.. carry on.. it is muchly appreciated...

Outstanding job old bean, keep it up

This is hands down one of the best channels of youtube! Great work!!

Me and the boys destroying some Bronze Age civilizations.

The humblest of kings, too!

Rameses the 3rd sounds like such a humble guy 😊

The sea people in Latin were known as the “Siculi” in the Greek “Sekeloi” and the Egyptians refer to them as Shekelesh, were tribes in the land of Sicily..

Those Sea People were taking good Egyptian jobs

I love primary sources! Great stuff :-)

This was very interesting & informative. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Interesting that the Sea Peoples were also clean-shaven, if that image of the heap of corpses is supposed to represent them.

"My father behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops and chariots are in the Land of Hatti, and all my ships are in the Land of Lukka?... Thus, the country is abandoned to itself. May my father know it: the seven ships of the enemy that came here inflicted much damage upon us." - Ammurapi's final letter from Ugarit

These are awesome!

Love the video!

They came, I saw, I conquered. -Ramses iii

This account is so old it pre dates modesty 😂

I follow for so much time the end of the bronze age, if i remember there was also some others texts (from that time) regarding the invaders but only know small parts of the texts, if you can also include will be great. Great job i was looking for this text for a long time.

This stuff is the stuff. What a great program of very well read historic jewels!

Finally you did it

In fairness the Egyptians were one of the few civilisations to survive the terrors of the Bronze Age Collapse.

What a humble guy this Rameses III is.

That was good stuff there.👍

Rameses appears on the battlefield: *ドドド!!～AYAYAYAAAAA～ドドド!!*

One of the interesting bits of history since we don't know who were the sea peoples.

Very interesting. .. thank you

Well done.

What follows is just my own theory based on my own studies of history. I think the memory of this invasion became the Iliad. The launching of the thousand ships...The sea peoples were likely a confederacy of Mediterranean sea faring kingdoms to the west, all the way to Gibralter, led by Mycenaean Greeks to whom they may have been vassals to some extent. The war was probably a result of grievances of tributes and booty or plunder inflicted on them by eastern kingdoms, ie Anatolia-Troy, and others, all the way to Egypt. I don't think it was a colonial campaign caused by drought and famine, as many historians suggest, else they would not have razed all cities. And such drought would even have been worse to the east. The assault ended as Rameses discribed by arrows on the sea. Achilles is the Homeric symbol leader of the war, who was brought down by arrow as it happens, and who it was said had slayed the Ethiopian king Memnon (did Achilles end up in or near Ethiopia ?); granted the lliad says Memnon came to Troy with a contingent...There are many deviations, and anachronisms, in the Iliad, ie the Mycenaean alliance armada did not in fact win, and the anachronisms are best explained by oral retellings of a few centuries of preludes to the all out culmination. But it is true that few returned, and there are many striking nuggets of similarity that could have retained through four centuries of bardic retelling of what became the Iliad, from the collapse to the first written account of Homer. Too many to list here. Also this is the time of the Exodus which I believe was effected to assist in this invasion on the side of Egypt with the promise to at least one tribe of Canaan of their own autonomous, or at least semi autonomous nation as reward, and so began the kingdom of Judah in the wake of this crushed invasion, in the Mosaic constitution known to us today as the Covenant to unite the tribes of Canaan.

Rameses III: *enters the battlefield Sea people: Why do I hear boss music ?

Thank you.

Excellent Video ! Pharaoh Ramses III was the Winston Churchill of ancient Egypt. Like Great Britain in the summer of 1940, Egypt too stood alone against the oncoming Sea Peoples whirlwind of destruction ! Everyone should try to visit the Temple of Medinet Habu in Egypt - dedicated to Ramses III !

So, basically, a sort of battle of Normandie... but in Egypt.

A sacrifice to the algorithm gods

Boy, he sure had a big ego. But setting aside my silly thoughts, I am truly enjoying learning the voices of the ancients and the elegance with which many leaders expressed their views and told their accounts. Thank you again for another great video.

Watching history channels about my genetic ancestor is such a rush. 🔥👍🏼

He says this, but I remember vividly someone saying, “Egypt survived, but they didn’t stop the sea people. Nobody did.”

I like how he said "Circle of the Earth"

This is awesome! where could I find a transcript of the hieroglyphic and translated text? I could use the practice

Classy!~

Titel made me expect Deep Ones ;)

This kid, Shlomo Hershalwitzenbergstein, he says he's from Shekelesh too.

epic stuff

Is this a translation of a hieroglyphic text? If so, could you tell me the bibliographic entry or whatever source you got the hieroglyphic text? I would like to read the hieroglyphic text.

I like how the branded himself at the end while signing off

Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Spain. Probably some of these no?

So humble.

Nice

Peleset are the Philistines, right?

It's so wild that we don't know who exactly caused one of the most impactful, and significant events in human history. I wonder who the leaders of the Sea Peoples were? Must have been some charismatic individuals.

I'm digging the poetry in this language, as a result of the difficult translation. "They decimated his lands and his people like That-Which-Is-Not." You have been visited by the opposite of existence... Beyond obliteration.

Epic.

5:50 Peleset = Pelasgoi (pre-Indoeuropean Greeks from Thessaly and Crete, later Philistines), Tjeker ("Thekel"?) = Teucrians = Trojans, Shekelesh = semitic mercenaries (i.e. "shekel" = weight and coin, later Sicels/Siculi), Denyen = Danaoi (Indoeuropean Greeks from Central and Southern mainland Greece), Weshesh = maybe Ausonians (pre-Indoeuropeans from Southern Italy, known pirates). I have two doubts: 1. If the Teucrians were involved, was this before or after the Trojan War, before they'd be allies, after rather subjects of the Greeks (Denyen). 2. Could the Weshesh be Cypriots (just then in the process of being turned into Greeks) instead of Italian pirates? This I conjecture from Alashya being then the name of Cyprus and, if we remove the al- (Semitic article?) part, it leaves Ashya (presumed origin of the word Asia). Ashya and Weshesh are not that different, but neither is Auso(n).

"ReTuRn ThE sLaB" 0:08

Actually just went over this in class today

what is the intro music?

The Sea Peoples lived on islands in the Mediterranean. The Philistines were originally from Kaphtor.

I won this war because I’m totally the best, just the best- no one better- and by Amun’s grace I was able to defeat these terrible warriors- very strong, very fierce- in their boats. There were so many of them, but it didn’t matter, I still won. Such a good victory. So many dead enemies. Because I had the best plan, and it worked because Amun said it should- such a great God- and because I’m so strong and amazing

Reminds me of the white walkers from Game of Thrones coming across the wall and invading. Off topic and on a tangent from this video, but the wall was something people believe existed 2000 years ago in the North. The Gog (Yajuj) and Magog (Majuj) from the Bible were believed to be up in the northern regions behind a blanket of clouds that kept them there until they were released in the end times to wreak havoc on the world. Ibn Fadlan who went up the Volga river for example from Iraq wrote about these concerns that he was going to their world.

Rameses III made a great diss track

Arwad, island near Syria? Do you mean Cyprus?

Rameses should have built a wall.

Listen to this again but with the pillar men theme song playing in the background

Rameses: did I mention how humble I am

Wherent they minoans

The mystery of the Sea Peoples is one I've know about for awhile. Than as I started watching this video I thought about Plato's story of Atlantis and how after they lost their island home. They are said to have wagged war on the civilizations of the Mediterranean. I have to wonder now if the Sea Peoples might be the armies of Atlantis or what remained of them after the fall. I was also thinking about the name Sea Peoples and how that name would fit well with the Atlantains. Who were suppose to be children of Neptune God of the Sea.

This whole time I’m just picturing Nacho Libre singing RAMSES NUMER ONE HE IS THE BEST

"like that which is not" does it get more badass than that?

Stern to bow! He doesn't mean "bow" as in bow & arrow. He means "bow" as in the pointy end of a ship. It rhymes with "cow". Stern to bow means from end to end of a ship.

The beginning of the Phoenician Golden Age was around the same time as the Late Bronze Age Collapse. They most likely were the "Sea People" given that they were a Thalassocratic Empire that dominated the Mediterranean Sea and its trade.

which hieroglyph is this taken from?

That's enough source yo a época movie. Also remembers me the war of Troy

Propaganda is hardly a modern invention it seems. Lovely vid, thanks !

When I die ... I hope to find out who on earth these people were. I have heard many MANY detailed theorys... . . But none of them will ever be known as the truth

Of what is this a translation/narration?

public school typical: so this was like over in Egypt, alabama in old dude times? yeah, i been through there one summer w my gm.

Theres a theory that they were Mycinian Greeks from the wars with Troy.

Well, we get it, Ramses III, you liked to brag a lot :d

They say he was extremely humble

I am Ramses! Hear me Roooaaarrrrr! This is my mean face.

Phoenicians perhaps?

"The circle of the earth" is a phrase in the Bible and often comes up in flat earth debates. Now we know where it comes from.

This is a new level of being prepotent. Loved this video anyway 🙌

I remember seeing another vid on this subject . Could they be the Iberomaurusian people ? They were very battle hungry and they were in this area at the time I believe . They also seem to have something to do with the time after the mythological kingdom of atlantis had fell. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/etqlo6eIy9aVdGQ.html