This is not an army raiding for plunder; these are people moving to find somewhere new to live.

Who were these people?

The Egyptian texts give us names, but names don’t tell us where people came from.

The Naming Problem And Its History

The study of the Sea Peoples has been plagued, from its origins in the nineteenth century, by the temptation to make a simple equation between a name in Egyptian hieroglyphics and a known people from other sources.

The most famous example is the Peleset.