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  1. Bronze Age Collapse

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    The Sea Peoples and External Pressure
    Contemporary Egyptian records, particularly from the mortuary temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, describe incursions by shifting coalitions referred to collectively as the Sea Peoples. These groups appear to have simultaneously attacked the Hittite Empire, Cyprus, the Levant coast, and reached as far as the Nile Delta [^4]. While the id…

  2. Sea Peoples

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    The Sea Peoples refer to a confederation of disparate maritime groups, principally active in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the late Bronze Age, circa the late 13th and early 12th centuries BCE. They are primarily known through hostile—and often hyperbolic—contemporary Egyptian inscriptions, most notably those detailing the campaigns of Ramesses III. Their arrival coincided with a period of widespread systemic instability often termed the…

  3. Sea Peoples

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    Documentary Evidence and Nomenclature
    The primary source material for the Sea Peoples originates almost exclusively from the chancelleries of the New Kingdom of Egypt, especially the records pertaining to the reign of Ramesses III (c. 1186–1155 BCE). These records, carved onto temple walls such as those at Medinet Habu, describe a vast, swirling threat moving from the northern Aegean and Anatolian coasts toward the fertile [Nile Delta](/entri…

  4. Sea Peoples

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    Legacy and Assimilation
    The direct military threat posed by the Sea Peoples largely dissipated after the decisive victories of Ramesses III, who recorded defeating them both on land and at sea around the Delta. Following these confrontations, many of the displaced groups seem to have settled in the Levant. The Peleset, most famously, are associated with the subsequent development of the Philistine Pentapolis in the southern coast of Canaan.
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