Sea Peoples are a hypothesized seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions in the East Mediterranean prior to and during the Late Bronze Age collapse .
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10 Facts About Sea Peoples
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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.
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Concept of the Sea Peoples was first described by Emmanuel de Rouge in 1855, then curator of the Louvre, in his work Note on Some Hieroglyphic Texts Recently Published by Mr Greene, describing the battles of Ramesses III described on the Second Pylon at Medinet Habu, and based upon recent photographs of the temple by John Beasley Greene.
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Medinet Habu inscriptions from which the Sea Peoples concept was first described remain the primary source and "the basis of virtually all significant discussions of them".
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Sea Peoples then mustered several counterattacks while waiting for reinforcements.
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Sea Peoples did not learn any lessons from this defeat, as they repeated their mistake in Year 8 with a similar result.
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Sea Peoples had built a fleet especially for the occasion, hid it in the Nile's mouths and posted coast watchers.
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Sea Peoples captured some Sherden and Weshesh "of the sea" and settled them in Egypt.
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Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greek Linear B tablets of Pylos in the Peloponnese along the Ionian Sea demonstrate increased slave raiding and the spread of mercenaries and migratory peoples and their subsequent resettlement.
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Sea Peoples believed Mycenaean Pylos was burned during an amphibious raid by warriors from the north .
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