The Sea Peoples in the Ancient Texts and Archaeological sources and the anachronistic error in representing them in ancient Egyptian reliefs"

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Professor, Department of Egyptian Antiquities - Faculty of Archeology - Cairo University. (Egypt)

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Abstract:
We can trace the movements of the Sea Peoples in the ancient Near East region from the end of the Late Bronze Age to the beginning of the Iron age. Through this period the east Mediterranean region was divided between some Great powers (Egypt, Ḫati, Babylonia and Ashur). The Sea Peoples are conjectured to have sailed around the Mediterranean and invaded Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Egypt toward the end of the Bronze Age.
So this paper will focus in:
1-    Their documentary Records.
2-    Their Divination.
3-    The anachronistic error in representing them in the Reliefs by the Ancient Egyptian artist.

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