In Egypt, Ramesses III was fighting to save his country and Empire in the midst of the Bronze Age collapse which was caused by the Sea People's invasion of various Near Eastern Powers. Ramesses III had already previous defeated an attack by the Libyans on the Egyptian Empire's western frontier in his fifth year. But the greatest threat was posed not by the Libyans, but by a group of migrating peoples called the Sea Peoples. These were times of crisis in the Mediterranean as many 12th century B.C. ancient civilizations were destroyed from attacks by the Sea Peoples and other migrating nations. The great Hittite Empire fell together with the Mycenaean civilization and other great cultures including the kingdom of Cyprus and Ugarit. Whatever their origins, the Sea Peoples moved around the eas