The Sea Peoples Who Conquered Every Civilization — And the Exact Moment They Simply Vanished

Within a single generation around 1200 BCE every major civilisation in the eastern Mediterranean collapsed simultaneously. The Hittite empire, gone. Mycenaean Greece, gone. Ugarit burned and was never rebuilt. Egypt barely survived and left behind stone inscriptions describing a confederacy of peoples arriving from the sea that Ramesses III named but couldn't explain. That account has been sitting on a temple wall at Medinet Habu for three thousand years and historians still haven't fully explained what it describes
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