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The Sea Peoples Pt. 1 🏺 | Egypt called them the Sea Peoples, a coalition of raiders blamed for helping bring down the civilizations of the Late Bronze Age. But almost everything we know about them comes from the people they attacked: pharaohs carving victories into temple walls, kings sending desperate letters, and cities destroyed before their warnings could ever be delivered. Learn more about the mystery of who they were in Part 2. Sources: Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Turning Points in Ancient History 1. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Cline, Eric H. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Feldman, Michael, Daniel M. Master, Raffaela A. Bianco, Marta Burri, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Alissa Mittnik, Adam J. Aja, Choongwon Jeong, and Johannes Krause. "Ancient DNA Sheds Light on the Origins of the Biblical Philistines." Science Advances 5, no. 7 (2019). Wilson, John A., trans. "The War Against the Peoples of the Sea." In Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, edited by James B. Pritchard, 262–263. 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969. Nougayrol, Jean, Emmanuel Laroche, Charles Virolleaud, and Claude F. A. Schaeffer. Ugaritica V. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1968. [Letter RS 20.238] Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. #ancienthistory #historytok #HistoryTime #seapeoples #bronzeage