The Apocalyptic Pirates of the Ancient World
Sometime during the Egyptian 19th dynasty—which lasted from 1292 to 1187 BCE—the Sea Peoples arrived on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean and began laying waste to everything in their path.
No settlement along the eastern Mediterranean was safe. No, really. The Sea Peoples destroyed pretty much everything.
“All at once the lands were removed and scattered in the fray,” states an inscription discovered in Pharaoh Ramesses III’s mortuary temple. “No land could stand before their arms, from Khatte, Quode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya on, being cut off at [one time]. A camp was set up in one place in Amor. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being.”
In 1180 BCE, the Sea Peoples marched on Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Kingdom—the chief rival to the Egyptian pharaohs—and annihilated it. The Hittites, who once fought evenly against thousands of Egyptian chariots at the Battle of Kadesh, ceased to exist.
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