Ramses III

Ramses III, which was the heir and the son of the great spiritual Ramses II, strengthen the power of prętres and prepare a survey of temples in Egypt. At the military level, it will provide the country with a fleet of warships in charge of protecting the mouth of the Nile threatened by the peoples of the sea joined the Philistines. Ramses III meet in a naval battle it records on the walls of his temple Médinet-Habou.

Conflicts will not cease for almost eleven years, often won by the pharaoh who also mčnera two wars on the Western front against coalition troops Jamahiriya (Libou and Meshouesh). The Libyans rejected in the first instance by Mineptah, reappeared in the western Delta. They will be defeated by Ramses III intčgrera some of their troops to the Egyptian army. The second offensive, six years later, will result in the annihilation of the enemies are to be taken captive with women and children. Libyan communities are then in the country which will be progressively égyptiannisées. They will gather in chiefdoms who will take power when the country to sink again into anarchy.

Ramses part III campaigning in Asia, 12 in the year of his rčgne, to protect Syrian possessions. The country will, at the end of this period guerričre a new Era of prosperity. Ramses III will leave behind him the castle of millions of years located at Medinet Habu. Representations of pylons célčbrent the glory of the Pharaoh and Egypt victorious and the interior walls episodes of the feast of the god Min generator.

The plan for this temple repeats the Ramesseum. It will build to a broad Karnak temple in grčs yellow repository for boats of the triad thébaine, a temple dedicated to the goddess Mut and god Khonsu, and he will, no doubt, the construction of the temple of Khonsu. He also built to Pi-Ramses, Heliopolis, Memphis, Athribis, Hermopolis, Assiut, This, Abydos, Ombos, Coptos, Elbak, Nubia and Syria. Some economic problems, in the year 29 of his rčgne, lead workers in Deir el-Medina in grčve.

The king dismissed his vizier and must see to the regularity of the service rations paid to temples. These difficulties also betray a weakening of state power deal with clergy and temples areas. The rčgne s’achčvera by intrigues and conspiracies that have resulted from dynastic quarrels.

A second wife, Tiy, foments a conspiracy in the harem to put on the throne his son, Pentaouret. The minutes of the conspirators procčs brought under rčgne of Ramses IV until we have reached. The conspiracy meet a commander Nubian archers and a general, senior officials of the harem, a steward, a treasurer royal scribes, supervisors and women. We engage in the rites of envoűtement with wax figurines to sleep guards doors and give access to outside accomplices.

The soldiers involved to this coup d’etat soulčvement lead the troops. Doubtless betrayed, the culprits will be convicted and executed. The Pharaoh décčdera shortly after and will be buried in the tomb number 11 in the Valley of the Kings. The mummy was found that of a man of sixty-five years which seems died of natural causes.