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Who Were the Sea Peoples?

Tides of History

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Defining Diego by Lori Weimann

Our direct written evidence about the Bronze Age collapse is surprisingly thin. It's hard to put together a compelling sequence of events or establish a cause or causes. The exception is in Egypt, where pharaohs Merneptah and Ramaziz III put up detailed inscriptions of their defeat of invaders they called the Sea Peoples.

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