Archaeology Sticks It Up The Bible's Ass Again

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The Sea People took out Mycenean Greece, Crete, Cyprus, probably "Troy" ( or whatever the locals called it) the Hittites, Ugarit, and despite the bullshit claims of Ramesses III they damn near took out Egypt and did end 4 centuries of Egyptian domination of Canaan.

They were real enough. Far more real than your "Israelites."

I have a theory that Mycenaean Greeks were a major component of the sea peoples, there are a lot of similarities between the material culture of the Philistines in Canaan and Mycenaean Greece. Although they did assimilate into the surrounding Canaanite culture to a high degree.

Something - probably environmental - caused entire populations to take to the sea as raiders. The Vikings of the 8-11th centuries are the best analogy that comes to me except the Sea Peoples were not a homogenous group.

We know from the writings of some of the people they attacked what they did and to a degree how they did it. But the Sea Peoples themselves wrote nothing and built nothing.

Nonetheless, this chart,


by Israeli archaeologist Amihai Mazar in "Ancient Israel" by Amnon Ben Tor compares Mycenean with Philistine pottery motifs so I doubt that anyone could convincingly dismiss the argument that the Peleset, at least, had a Hellenic background. It is simply way too close, both in style and in time, to be a coincidence.

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Well there were Israelities (or the people that would help to form the minority) likely in Egypt during the late Bronze Age.

When you find evidence to that effect kindly let me....and an entire generation of Egyptologists...in on your little secret.