Rising powerful states and peoples began to challenge Egyptian authority in the ancient Near East from the sixteenth century BC onward.
Tuthmosis the Third and Ramesses the Second fought to stop these ambitious people from spreading outside their homelands.
Merenptah, son of Ramesses the Second, had to resume the struggle against the groups of enemies from Syria, Palestine, and Libya that threatened Egypt in the fifth year of his reign.
Merenptah erected a victory stela, an upright stone with a sculpted surface, in his mortuary temple at Thebes. It relates the fight against his foes in which the name of the people of Israel was mentioned for the first and only time upon an Egyptian monument .
Tuthmosis the Third and Ramesses the Second fought to stop these ambitious people from spreading outside their homelands.
Merenptah, son of Ramesses the Second, had to resume the struggle against the groups of enemies from Syria, Palestine, and Libya that threatened Egypt in the fifth year of his reign.
Merenptah erected a victory stela, an upright stone with a sculpted surface, in his mortuary temple at Thebes. It relates the fight against his foes in which the name of the people of Israel was mentioned for the first and only time upon an Egyptian monument .
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