The walls stand.

The questions remain.

The search continues.

The Bronze Age ended.

A new world began.

The people who crossed the sea between those two worlds were the Sea Peoples — real, complex, human, and finally, after three millennia, beginning to be truly known.

The Iron Age World The Sea Peoples Helped Create

The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age is one of the most consequential transformations in human history, and the Sea Peoples were participants in — if not primary causes of — that transition.