Who Were The Sea People? The Seafarers That Destroyed The Ancient World
These mysterious warriors helped accelerate the Bronze Age collapse
The Bronze Age Collapse was an event in the ancient world that saw numerous civilizations crumble and vanish seemingly overnight. Over the course of a few chaotic decades, massive cities were abandoned, and kingdoms fell, disappearing into obscurity. The scope and scale of the calamity are unlike anything seen in recent history.
One of the oddest features of this societal collapse is the fact that the causes largely remain a mystery.
Scientists, historians, and archeologists have argued for decades about the Bronze Age Collapse. Some say it was due to a string of untimely natural disasters. Others say famine stretched the communities to their breaking point. Disease has also been thrown around as a potential cause of the calamity. Underlying all of these theories is perhaps the most curious and the most interesting. The Sea Peoples.
Amidst the stories of disease, famine and earthquakes are tales of ferocious raiders that appeared from over the horizon, struck cities while they were struggling, and then vanished back out to sea.
The Sea Peoples were a group of seafaring raiders that appeared in the historical…
