The MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS of the SEA PEOPLES

Many people have heard of the Sea Peoples in the context of the Bronze Age Collapse. In some ancient texts they are the ones who get the blame for all the evils that occurred at the time. But who were the Sea Peoples, where did they come from, and where did they go?

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[TankUni]

Has anyone considered it might have been early British tourists behaving (very) badly on holiday in the Med?

[Thefoxtails]

The bronze age is my favourite era in history, thanks for always doing it justice, love listening to your works 😁

[GothPaoki]

I love history times doc catchphrase about the ramses account of the raids." In the inscriptions the Egyptians seem to be winning more and more great victories but they seem to be winning closer and closer to their capital"...

[edgarsnake]

That was easily the best wrap-up of the available info on the Sea Peoples that I have seen. Thanks, Doc.

[Salamander]

History was always a passion for me. The sea peoples are shrouded in mystery of different reasons. First, their origin is obscure as they were different groups of people from around the Mediterranean. They were united but never formed a civilisation. Secondly, there was a severe drought at the time which lasted 300 years and which brought about the end of the Bronze Age. The sea peoples had to leave their settlements and find new territories in order to have food, so they migrated together with their families to more fertile territories. They were skilled shipmen and are the first known climate refugees. They scattered around the Mediterranean regions and later mixed with the native populations. A greater group settled down in Canaan. Speculations say that even the mysterious Etruscans' ancestry goes back to the sea peoples.

[masterdecats]

Thanks for covering the “sea people” mystery. I find this time period super fascinating.

[bwhotwing]

I’ve always been fascinated with the Seapeoples. I have the 1177 Bronze Age collapse book and have been interested ever since I read it.

[CrimsonSpd]

Was just talking to my buddy about the sea peoples, we had one of our crazy long drunken conversations that wound up talking about atlantis, which lead me to minoans and talking about the sea peoples. So glad you put this out, ive shared it with my buddy and i know hell love your channel.

[ChrisVillagomez]

I just talked about this on Thursday with my Ancient World professor but I've always loved that we know who some of the Sea Peoples were like the Philistines, the Lukka, and the Sherden of Sardinia

[JMMRanMA]

What an interesting video. I've heard several explanations of the Sea People, but this is the most detailed and solid theory as far as the evidence currently available goes. Thanks for your great work Prof. Miano!

[lastofmygeneration]

If I could travel back in time, this is one of the first things I'd check out. The Late Bronze Age collapse is so fascinating.

[MatthewBowman]

I was just explaining the Sea Peoples to my wife the other day! Mind you, I took a lot longer, because it was a tangent about how the start of the Iron Age changed diplomacy in the Middle East, which itself was a tangent off of a question she'd asked about historical uses of steel with horses. And I still tangented off into linguistics and explaining Ugarit.

I tangent a lot, but it's all so fascinating! Fortunately for my health, my wife knew this going into our marriage. 😅

[GameHammerCG]

“Where did they come from, and where did they go?” Damn dude, I never realised Cotton Eye Joe had such a strong historical pedigree!

[papasitoman]

Was just talking about the Sea People the other day. Perfect timing! Great channel!

[snailrancher]

One area that you did not address (understandably since the Egyptian textual and iconographic evidence is so rich and evocative) is the growing archaeological evidence, particularly outside of the Nile valley. For example, on Bate's Island (located in the lagoon near Marsa Matruh) there is evidence of seasonal settlement of Aegean and Cypriot peoples who engaged in trade with the local Bronze Age Libyans, showing the contacts between Libyans and "Sea Peoples" but outside of Egyptian control. Similarly, the site of Tell Tweini (ancient Gibala), to the south of Ugarit, was destroyed at the end of the LBA and (re)settled in the early Iron Age by people making Late Helladic IIIC Early 1 style ceramics locally (i.e., Aegeans settled here). Another very important development is the identification of Palistin (formerly misread as Walistin), a Neo-Hittite kingdom of the early Iron Age located on the modern Turkish/Syrian border, which saw a huge influx of locally produced "Aegean" ceramics, again almost certainly due to Mycenean settlement at the end of the LBA (see the work of Jeffery Emanuel). Finally, another major development is the reconsideration of the idea that Ramesses III purposefully settled Peleset people in what became Philistia (and thus under Egyptian control), or rather that they settled there of their own accord, but the Egyptians attempted to essentially block them from encroaching further into Egyptian imperial territory; for this see the book "The Philistines and Aegean migration at the end of the Late Bronze Age" by Assaf Yasur-Landau, as well as other works by other scholars.

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[avrywilson]

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[paulchrystie]

That Anciant aliens (alien historian) hair just adds to the integrity. Love yr work Miamo

[willhigh]

Such an interesting topic, makes us picture those people so long ago and their epic battles/history/despair/conquests, history is always interesting! Great video!

[antoniotorcoli]

Amazing video. The best explanation about the Sea People I ever read or listen to.