Who Were the Sea Peoples? The Bronze Age Collapse | Documentary
Before the Ruins
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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).
Images: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain); authors and licences are credited at the end of the film.
#SeaPeoples #BronzeAgeCollapse #AncientHistory
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Who Were the Sea Peoples? The Bronze Age Collapse | Documentary
Before the Ruins
306 views
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).
Images: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain); authors and licences are credited at the end of the film.
#SeaPeoples #BronzeAgeCollapse #AncientHistory