I always understood the “Sea People’s” meant the Phoenicians. sp?
Thanks JV. The Sea Peoples weren't a distinct, otherwise unknown group, although given their lack of a homeland, lack of burial grounds or distinctive burials, lack of any inscriptions or sign of their own language, and the list goes on and on, basically no cultural remains *at all*, they are mythical. They are known from a couple of later New Kingdom texts in Egypt, and that's all there is. The problem is, the conventional chronology is a pseudochronology that assigns dates to a number of pharaonic dynasties that are too high. This has been borne out by (for example) the radiocarbon dating of the innards of Ramses II "the Great", preserved in his canopic jars, and over 700 years 'too young'.