Here's the Daily Mail article on the same thing:
Mysterious civilization of Sea Peoples were wiped out by world war zero 3,000 years ago
Mysterious civilization of Sea Peoples were wiped out by world war zero 3,000 years ago
Wouldn’t those be Phoenicians?
Some authorities extend the map of the Hittite Empire all the way to the Aegean/Med shores of what we describe as southern Anatolia. It’s a convenient device to fill in areas which have no apparent separate identity.
Regarding the Sea Peoples, the question has always been their place of origin. We are pretty sure that the Mycenaeans would not have been identified by this appellation. Other theories have placed them as far away as the extreme Western Med or around Italy/Sicily.
This theory of a coordinated bunch of city states in that Anatolian region could finally place and make sense of the origins of the Sea People. Being a coastal people, they would have the requisite sea-faring knowledge to be rated as “Sea People.”
If the Hittites recognized them as a ‘people’ and not just one city, then I think the idea has some merit. You don’t have to have huge cities of stone to become sea raiders as the Vikings proved centuries later.
