Editing Shasu (section)

{{Short description|Bronze–Iron Age nomads in the Southern Levant}}
[[File:Ramesses III captive tile from Medinet Habu.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shasu prisoner as depicted in [[Ramesses III]]'s [[reliefs]] at [[Medinet Habu]].]]
The '''Shasu''' ({{langx|egy|[[:wikt:šꜣsw|šꜣsw]]}}, possibly pronounced ''šaswə''{{sfn|Redford|1992|p=271}}) were [[Semitic languages|Semitic]]-speaking [[nomadic pastoralism|pastoral nomads]] in the [[Southern Levant]] from the late [[Bronze Age]] to the Early [[Iron Age]] or the [[Third Intermediate Period of Egypt]]. They were tent dwellers, organized in clans ruled by a tribal chieftain and were described as [[brigands]] active from the [[Jezreel Valley]] to [[Ashkelon]], in the [[Transjordan (region)|Transjordan]] and in the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]].{{sfn|Miller|2005|p=95}} Some of them also worked as mercenaries for [[Aamu|Asiatic]] and [[Egypt|Egyptian]] armies.{{sfn|Younker|1999|p=203}}