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in the delta, had reunited the country by a defeat of the pre­
tender from Thebes, and had founded a new dynasty, the twen­
tieth by Egyptian reckoning. And now his son, another Rameses,
was king, and still strong enough, it seemed, to hold off any
invaders. Even the invasion of 1190, when the Libyans and their
maritime allies had joined forces with their cousins, the Philis-

PLAN OF THE EXCAVATED PORTION OF TROY VI, THE CITY WALLS AND
BUILDINGS OF WHICH STILL STOOD, CROWDED AROUND WITH REFUGEE
SHACKS, AT THE TIME OF THE SIEGE OF TROY. NOTHING IS LEFT OF
THE CENTRAL AREA, WHERE THE PALACE OF PRIAM MUST HAVE
STOOD----IT WAS CLEARED AWAY WHEN A GREEK CITY WAS BUILT
THERE ABOUT A THOUSAND YEARS LATER.
tines of the Canaan coast, and with those experienced desert
fighters, the Israelis of the interior of Palestine, had been beaten
back. They had attacked from Palestine in a combined land and
sea operation across the Sinai desert and had reached the isthmus
between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean. But at Arvad
near the eastern edge of the delta they had been decisively de­
feated by the army of Rameses III and had retreated in disorder.
In these attacks some of the allies of Agamemnon had taken