The Sea Peoples: The Ancient Mystery That Stumped Historians For Centuries — And What Modern Science Finally Revealed About Who They Really Were
Others — perhaps the Shardana — were primarily mercenaries and warriors who moved between different employers and contexts.
Others may have been primarily raiders or pirates, engaging in short-term opportunistic violence rather than systematic migration.
And some may have been complex combinations of all of these.
The Egyptian records, which are the primary source for the Sea Peoples label, naturally emphasize the military dimension — the Pharaoh’s victory reliefs show battles, not the more complex social realities of migration and settlement.
This emphasis on the military has contributed to the image of the Sea Peoples as primarily a military phenomenon rather than a social and demographic one.
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