The Sea Peoples: Solving One of the Ancient World’s Greatest Mysteries
For thousands of years, one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world has remained unresolved.
Around 1200 BCE, the great civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean collapsed with startling speed. Cities burned. Long-distance trade networks disintegrated. Writing systems vanished. Entire political orders fell into chaos in what historians now call the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
Amid this upheaval, Egyptian records speak of unfamiliar groups arriving by ship — the Sherden, Peleset, Denyen, and Tjeker — peoples who seemed to emerge from the sea itself.
History remembers them as the Sea Peoples.
Yet who they were, where they came from, and why they appeared has never been fully understood. Were they invaders, migrants, refugees, mercenaries — or something more complex?
In this video, we explore how marine archaeology is finally transforming that mystery.
From Bronze Age shipwrecks like Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya, to submerged coastlines now hidden beneath rising seas, archaeologists are gaining access to a world ancient historians could never reach. Using modern tools such as ROVs, sonar mapping, and photogrammetry, researchers are reconstructing ancient maritime networks that once connected — and destabilized — the Mediterranean world.
The deeper archaeologists look beneath the waves, the more complex the story becomes.
This is not a tale of myth or legend. It is a story built on real evidence, real ships, and a past that may have unfolded between coastlines rather than within them.
🎥 Watch the video below to explore the Sea Peoples and discover how underwater archaeology is reshaping our understanding of the Late Bronze Age collapse:
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