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The Sea Peoples Pt. 2 🏺 | Who were the Sea Peoples? For a long time, the answer was simply "we don’t know." But the evidence is getting harder to ignore. The Lukka appear centuries before the Bronze Age collapse. The Sherden may connect to Sardinia. The Peleset became the Philistines. And names like Ekwesh, Ahhiyawa, and Achaioi may point toward the Mycenaean Greek world. Then there’s the recent DNA evidence. At Ashkelon, individuals buried in the early Iron Age showed a new southern European genetic signal, with affinities to the Aegean, Sardinia, and Iberia. So the Sea Peoples were multiple groups, from different places, moving through the eastern Mediterranean at the same time. The real mystery is why. 🧐 Sources: Albright, William F. "Dunand's New Byblos Volume: A Lycian at the Byblian Court." Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 155 (1959): 31–34. Bryce, Trevor R. "The Lukka Problem — And a Possible Solution." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33, no. 4 (1974): 395–404. Cline, Eric H. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Cline, Eric H. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean. BAR International Series 591. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum, 1994. Sandars, N. K. The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterranean, 1250–1150 BC. Rev. ed. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #theodyssey #seapeoples #historytok