====== The 'Sea peoples' ======

The //Sea Peoples. //refers to a 'seafaring confederation' of ethnic and sociological groups which is said to have dominated the Eastern Mediterranean around 1,200 - 900 BCE.

It has been proposed that the Sea Peoples originated from a number of different locations, e.g. the Aegean, the Mediterranean islands, Southern Europe, and Western Asia Minor.

It's suggested that the group may have included the //Danuna, Karkisa, Labu, Lukka, Meshwesh, Shardana, Shekelesh //and the// Tjakkar //peoples. (See [[https://web.archive.org/web/20040814180456/http://www.courses.psu.edu/cams/cams400w_aek11/www/index.htm|Sea Peoples and the Philistines on the Web]] [archived] Penn State University).

Some scholars have proposed that the group invaded Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Canaan, Cyprus, and Egypt. Historical details remain unclear, however, and in some cases are disputed :

>The Sea Peoples remain unidentified in the eyes of most modern scholars, and hypotheses regarding the origin of the various groups are the source of much speculation.\\ \\ Source : [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples|Wikipedia]]