The Children of Adam and Eve

He reigned 1186-1155 BC, Egyptian king of the 20th Dynasty, a great
military leader who repeatedly saved the country from invasion. In the
fifth year of his reign, Ramses defeated an attack by the Libyans from the
west, and two years later he routed invaders known as the Sea Peoples. In
his 11th year he again repelled an attempted Libyan invasion. Ramses was
also a builder of Temples and palaces in the tradition of his 19th-Dynasty
predecessor, Ramses II. His victories are depicted on the walls of his
mortuary Temple at Medinet Habu, near Luxor. Egyptian records tell of a
strike by Workers at Ramses's burial site and of a plot against the king
near the end of his reign. Ramses III was the last of the great rulers of
ancient Egypt; his Death was followed by centuries of weakness and foreign
domination.