This article was published recently in New Scientist, a journal that is not strongly peer evaluated, but I thought the ancient history members might be interested. https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ught-down-mystery-civilisation-of-sea-people/
You know, I think I saw that magazine at the store the other day...thanks for posting the link, I'm going to read it now. I really like the history magazine Ancient Warfare. Sure, not peer reviewed, but has good articles that I find really interesting. One of my favorite articles was a "debate" about PTSD and the ancient Greeks. Good stuff that made me think.
I recently read an interesting book about the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations. The book revolved around Sea Peoples, Luwians, and the "Global Economy / Interdependence" of the Bronze Age World and its collapse. "1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric H Cline... The author theorizes on the events leading to the collapse of the Bronze Age Civilization and plunged man into a Dark Ages...
I must admit I had never heard of the Luwians (neither apparently has spell check). Is their language known to be a variant of early Greek? I had thought the language of Troy was an Hellenic dialect and that of Hittites to have been within the Indo European linguistic branch. Most other people of that region were speaking a Semitic tongue and the Egyptians a language within the Hamitic group. The theory for the Greek Dark Age is a plausible one but that explains why it has not been on the History Channel as it does not have celestial visitors being held accountable for the collapse.
I have run across them during my ancient history readings. Interesting group of people that I am not sure we know a lot about... Supposedly their language was more related to Hittite. Quick info on them from this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luwian_language
