People / group
Sea Peoples
The Sea Peoples were migrating confederacies of seafaring raiders who attacked the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Egyptian records describe Ramesses III defeating them in land and sea battles around 1177 BCE. Accounts of the Hittite Empire identify them as immediate agents of the Bronze Age collapse that destroyed the Hittite state, while New Kingdom Egypt survived in weakened form.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sea Peoples. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sea-peoples
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- “Sea Peoples.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sea-peoples. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Sea Peoples.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sea-peoples.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sea Peoples’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sea-peoples (Accessed: ).
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