Many great changes had begun to occur…
1101 BCE to 1090 BCE
Many great changes had begun to occur in the Egyptian Empire during the reign of Ramesses III because of the invasion of Syria by peoples from Asia Minor and Europe.
His successors lose their hold over Canaan; the Twenty-first Dynasty no longer intervenes in the affairs of Syria.
In The Story of Wen-Amon, a tale of an Egyptian religious functionary sent to Byblos to secure cedar around 1100, the episode of the functionary's inhospitable reception shows the extent of the decline of Egypt's authority in Phoenicia at this time.
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