Who Were the Mysterious Sea Peoples Blamed for the Bronze Age Collapse?
They came from the sea, laid waste to civilization, and disappeared!
They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being- Ramses III
The Late Bronze Age (1200 BC) was a period of unprecedented technological progress in human history. Grand cities with sophisticated urban life, interconnected global trade, and a well-developed writing and record-keeping system defined the era.
Within a period of fifty years, it was all gone. Beautiful cities, palaces, and farmlands were destroyed, burned down, and abandoned.
Who was responsible for this mindless devastation?
The guilty party were the Sea Peoples, a group of marauding seafarers who launched a major amphibious assault on cities like it was never seen before. They came from the sea, razed, burned, killed, looted, and then disappeared!
Or so we thought.
While the narrative of uncivilized invaders wreaking havoc on sophisticated settled peoples has captivated the human imagination since time immemorial, the truth was a little more complicated.
