The Rise and Fall of the Sheridan Sea Pirates

The true identity of the Sheridan Sea Pirates could be key to understanding the real catalyst for this round of tension. Ramesses claimed that the Sheridan were in some way affiliated with the Hittites so it could be the Hittite way of testing the new pharaoh. There are those who suspect that Seti seeded the city of Kadesh to Muwertali. If this was the case then it appears that Ramesses was not happy about this arrangement and wanted Levantine lands back under Egyptian authority. It could have been in 1275 BCE that an Egyptian campaign into Syrian coastal lands took place where the Egyptians went to broker some kind of deal with the Amuru Kingdom which existed in the lands