stackyFACTSAround 1200 BCE, a sophisticated network of powerful Mediterranean empires suddenly and violently collapsed into ruins.
Around 1200 BCE, a sophisticated network of powerful Mediterranean empires suddenly and violently collapsed into ruins. Historical texts blame an enigmatic, heavily armed confederation known only as the 'Sea Peoples' who mercilessly raided coastal cities from Greece to Egypt. To this day, archaeologists cannot definitively agree on where this massive marauding armada originated, leaving them as one of history's most terrifying and successfully destructive unsolved mysteries.
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