The Sea Peoples: The Ancient Mystery That Stumped Historians For Centuries — And What Modern Science Finally Revealed About Who They Really Were

The Egyptian texts group them together because from the Egyptian perspective they were all part of the same crisis.

But from the perspective of the groups themselves — had we any record of their perspectives — they would presumably have seen themselves as distinct peoples with distinct histories.

The Hittite Connection: What The Collapse Meant In Anatolia

The Hittite Empire’s disappearance in the Bronze Age Collapse is one of the most dramatic aspects of the period, and it has direct relevance to the Sea Peoples question because Anatolia appears to have been one of the primary sources — or at least a major transit zone — for the populations that became the Sea Peoples.

The Hittite Empire at its height controlled most of Anatolia and competed with Egypt for control of the Levant.