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Explanation: The Bronze Age Collapse, a sharp decline of civilizations across the Bronze Age Mediterranean, happened around the time of a mysterious group of folk now referred to as the Sea Peoples entered the historical record. Whether they were a cause of the collapse or an effect is debated - but they left no writings of their own, only being referred to with terror as raiders and pillagers by the declining states of the period.
I responded on another comment but I thought I should repeat this here ....
More likely western Mediterranean people or western European peoples who were dealing with catastrophic climate change event at the time. They faced starvation and famine so whole collections of people moved east to try to save themselves.
Fall of Civilizations is a great podcast that details all of this and if you ever have time to listen to it (it's a youtube video with visuals but it mostly works as a podcast ... and no it's not some new AI show done by some random internet user) ... the writer and producer does a great job of presenting a lot of modern history and research that has been done on these subjects. It's a long program but great content.
I've been listening in all the other shows they have on their channel. Great way to learn so much in a relatively short space of time ... relative as compared to actually reading entire books on the subjects.
Probably, because the sea people where annihilated by the Egyptians. We know that, because they boasted about that in writing.
Didn’t save Egypt in the end, but bought the county some time.
.... and since they were victorious and were the victors ... the Egyptians got to be the ones who wrote the history of what happened.
Sounds like early Vikings or just a collection of raiders. They don't care about records or writing. They wanted the food, women, and tools. Then they headed out. Probably parked on a beach and then enjoyed the plunder.
Considering the location (and the low level of development of Scandinavia at this time), it's unlikely that they were Norse in origin. It's generally accepted that they were probably from around Anatolia, Greece, and Italy.
More likely western Mediterranean people or western European peoples who were dealing with catastrophic climate change event at the time. They faced starvation and famine so whole collections of people moved east to try to save themselves.
Fall of Civilizations is a great podcast that details all of this and if you ever have time to listen to it (it's a youtube video with visuals but it mostly works as a podcast ... and no it's not some new AI show done by some random internet user) ... the writer and producer does a great job of presenting a lot of modern history and research that has been done on these subjects. It's a long program but great content.
I've been listening in all the other shows they have on their channel. Great way to learn so much in a relatively short space of time ... relative as compared to actually reading entire books on the subjects.