Egypt’s New Kingdom in Contact with the World

TL;DR: A review of the evidence and theories regarding New Kingdom Egypt's contacts with its neighbors (Nubia, Libya, the Mediterranean, Canaan, and Syria) as well as the pharaohs' foreign policy toward Hatti and Mittani can be found in this paper .

Abstract: The foreign relations of the New Kingdom of Egypt can be described as a combination of continuity and change. On one hand, the physical geography of its environment and the basic underpinnings of the relationship with its neighbors, whoever they were, remained constant, whatever political events affected Egypt. On the other hand, a change in attitude can be discerned from the rich textual and pictorial records documenting wars against newly emerging powers in the north and the east and an unprecedented effort to subjugate Nubia in the south. This chapter offers a review of the evidence and theories regarding New Kingdom Egypt’s contacts with its neighbors (Nubia, Libya, the Mediterranean, Canaan, and Syria), as well as the pharaohs’ foreign policy toward Hatti and Mittani.