Egyptian history records that two wars under Pharoahs Merneptah and Ramses III were engaged against this group, and it is thought that invasions into Anatolia by them caused the breakup of the Hittite Empire.
Egyptian history records that two wars under Pharoahs Merneptah and Ramses III were engaged against this group, and it is thought that invasions into Anatolia by them caused the breakup of the Hittite Empire. They are variously identified by the Egyptians as the Ekwesh, the ancestors of the Achaean Greeks, the Teresh or Tyrhennians, who were the ancestors of Etruscans, and the Peselet, believed to be the Philistines. FTP, identify these unimaginatively named groups, named for their maritime tendencies.
Egyptian history records that two wars under Pharoahs Merneptah and Ramses III were engaged against this group, and it is thought that invasions into Anatolia by them caused the breakup of the Hittite Empire.
Sea Peoples