Major conflict1208 BCE

Merneptah's Libyan War

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western Delta · Perire

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Merneptah's defeat of a Libyan-Sea Peoples coalition in the western Delta, commemorated on the Merneptah Stele (which contains the earliest known mention of Israel).

Belligerents4

New Kingdom Egypt
Libu
Meshwesh
Sea Peoples

ON THE MAPEgyptian New Kingdom

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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