Ramses III Defeats the Sea Peoples
Ramses III Defeats the Sea Peoples
Those who reached my boundary,
Their heart and their soul are finished forever and ever,
As for those that had assembled before them on the sea,
The full flame was their front before the harbor mouth
And a wall of metal upon the shore surrounded them
They were dragged, overturned and laid to low upon the beach
Slain and made heaps from stern to bow of their galleys while all their things were cast upon the water
Thus, I turned back the waters to remember egypt and when they even mention my name in their land, may it consume them in fear!
Ramses III
But who were the Sea People? And if they were raiders, did some environmental event force them into raiding? Was this just one part of a systems collapse?
Yeah, I believe that's the consensus.
Here are some good videos on the subject.
My theory is they were Mesoamericans making a Sunset-Invasion-style journey to the old world