The Sea Peoples are in effect a modern invention and kludge to solve problems with the conventional pseudochronology. They left no cultural traces anywhere (such as characteristic burials, weapons, human remains, writing, and most curiously, ships) yet supposedly swept across the entire eastern Mediterranean.
In most places, the Mycenaeans took over from the Minoans. There was contact between Egypt and the Aegean no later than the late Middle Kingdom. If this guy’s on the right track, it shows that the Minoan-era Cretans adopted/adapted a script system from Egypt, rather than showing conquest or colonization of the island the New Kingdom Egyptians.
I knew about this part “.. Mycenaeans took over from the Minoans. There was contact between Egypt and the Aegean no later than the late Middle Kingdom. ..”. I also knew there was a physical evidence problem regarding the “Sea Peoples”.
Didn’t know the whole “Sea Peoples” thing had been discarded.
Other then pottery is there any physical connection between the Myceneans & the Philistines? Similarity of tombs, temples etc.?