The Sea Peoples
The Sea Peoples, or Peoples of the Sea, are thought to have been a confederacy of seafaring raiders, possibly from Southern Europe, especially the Aegean Sea, who sailed around the eastern Mediterranean and invaded Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age. However, the actual identity of the Sea Peoples has remained enigmatic and modern scholars have only the scattered records of ancient civilizations and archaeological analysis to inform them.
The Sea Peoples are documented during the late 19th dynasty and especially during year 8 of Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty when they tried to enter or control the Egyptian territory.⁽The Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah explicitly refers to them by the term "the foreign-countries (or 'peoples') of the sea" (Egyptian n3 ḫ3s.wt n<.t> p3 ym) in his Great Karnak Inscription. Most scholars believe that they invaded Cyprus, Hatti and the Levant.
Among the Sea Peoples identified in Egyptian records are the Ekwesh, possibly a group of Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans); Teresh, Tyrrhenians, possibly ancestors of the Etruscans; Lukka, an Anatolian people of the Aegean (who may have given their name to the region of Lycia and in Lycian language); Sherden, probably Sardinians; Shekelesh, probably the Italic tribe called Siculi; Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines, who might have come from Crete and were with the Tekrur (possibly Greek Teucrians) the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples known to have settled permanently in the Levant.
The Sea Peoples, or Peoples of the Sea, are thought to have been a confederacy of seafaring raiders, possibly from Southern Europe, especially the Aegean Sea, who sailed around the eastern Mediterranean and invaded Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age. However, the actual identity of the Sea Peoples has remained enigmatic and modern scholars have only the scattered records of ancient civilizations and archaeological analysis to inform them.
The Sea Peoples are documented during the late 19th dynasty and especially during year 8 of Ramesses III of the 20th Dynasty when they tried to enter or control the Egyptian territory.⁽The Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah explicitly refers to them by the term "the foreign-countries (or 'peoples') of the sea" (Egyptian n3 ḫ3s.wt n<.t> p3 ym) in his Great Karnak Inscription. Most scholars believe that they invaded Cyprus, Hatti and the Levant.
Among the Sea Peoples identified in Egyptian records are the Ekwesh, possibly a group of Bronze Age Greeks (Achaeans); Teresh, Tyrrhenians, possibly ancestors of the Etruscans; Lukka, an Anatolian people of the Aegean (who may have given their name to the region of Lycia and in Lycian language); Sherden, probably Sardinians; Shekelesh, probably the Italic tribe called Siculi; Peleset, generally believed to refer to the Philistines, who might have come from Crete and were with the Tekrur (possibly Greek Teucrians) the only major tribe of the Sea Peoples known to have settled permanently in the Levant.
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