Who Were the Sea Peoples? The Bronze Age Collapse | Documentary

Around 1177 BC, a coalition of seafaring raiders attacked Egypt, and a pharaoh carved the battle into the walls of his temple. For more than a century, these "Sea Peoples" have been blamed for the end of the Bronze Age. But who were they? This documentary follows every name Egypt recorded, one by one: the Sherden, the Lukka, the Ekwesh, the Teresh, the Shekelesh, the Denyen, the Peleset, the Tjeker and the Weshesh. We test each against the stones, the letters of Ugarit, the DNA of Ashkelon and the pottery of the Philistines. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:22 The last king of Ugarit 4:26 The world before the fall 8:35 Where the name comes from 12:03 Merneptah and the Libyans 14:22 Medinet Habu: land and sea 18:59 The Sherden: soldiers before invaders 22:24 The Lukka 24:06 The Ekwesh: were they Greeks? 26:42 The Teresh 29:19 The Shekelesh 31:08 The Denyen 33:39 The Peleset: the Philistines 37:37 The Tjeker at Dor 39:36 The Weshesh 40:23 What the names tell us 41:47 Cyprus, the copper island 44:30 What the destruction layers prove 47:37 Drought and famine 50:16 A system too tightly bound 53:06 Conclusion MAIN SOURCES Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C. (rev. ed. 2021) · Epigraphic Survey, Medinet Habu I (1930) · N. K. Sandars, The Sea Peoples (1978) · Killebrew & Lehmann (eds.), The Philistines and Other "Sea Peoples" (2013) · Yasur-Landau, The Philistines and Aegean Migration (2010) · Feldman et al., Science Advances 5 (2019) · Gitin, Dothan & Naveh, IEJ 47 (1997) · Moran, The Amarna Letters (1992). Watch next: 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed | Bronze Age Collapse Documentary:    • 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed |...   Did the Trojan War Really Happen? What Archaeology Shows | Documentary:    • Did the Trojan War Really Happen? What Arc...   Images: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain); authors and licences are credited at the end of the film. #SeaPeoples #BronzeAgeCollapse #AncientHistory