On a possibly related note, where did the Sea Peoples come from and where did they go?
It's remarkable how often they come up in topics around FR. :^) They didn't exist per se. The Sea Peoples, despite having been mighty enough to blot out empires throughout the Aegean, Anatolia, Near East, and northern Africa, built no cities, left no characteristic graves, weapons, inscriptions, or even rulers over the vanquished -- and most peculiarly of all, left no shipwrecks anywhere. They were invented out of just two references in the late New Kingdom period in Egypt in order to try to make sense of out the mess created by proponents of the conventional pseudochronology.