You done been an exceptionally evil person.
This thread and its pic reminded me of some terraces carved into nearly vertical rocky mountainsides by Hittites way back in the day. So, I went looking for the pictures just to see if there were any similarities.
Never found the pics. My google-fu wasn’t up to snuff. But!!!
I did wander into the Aegean Apocalypse and the following Greek Dark Age. The Sea People that ravaged the Med AO at that period.
Who were the Sea People? Who were the Pelasgii? Where did the Hittites come from? Why’d they pick such a barren place to settle? What the heck traumatized them so badly that they’d make their laws and culture harsh enough to make the Spartans seem like sissies? Where the heck did they go when they abandoned their capital (some 40k peoples?)
It’s now 5:45 AM and I just can’t stop inter-netting on these silly questions.
Never mind the rest, such as who were the Danaan Greeks? Where’d they come from? Are they related to the Tuatha de Danaan of Irish myth? Then there’s the Dorics. Same stuff. Where’d they come from? Herotodus seems to say that the Hellenes were were Pelasgii and the Dorics were Hellenes. Shouldn’t that be the other way around? Oh, and I found references to letters written back in this period that indicate that there were Greeks that believed they were Israelites that wandered off prior to the Isaelites migrating into Egypt.
And then back to who the heck were the Sea People? what role did the Sardinians play in all that?
I hate it when people do this to me. Trigger a solid manic that turns obsessive. It. Is. All. Your. Fault!!
Other than that, I’m having a lot of fun with this stuff. Too bad I don’t know enough to sort through the crap and find myself some nuggets that are reliable info.
>>And then back to who the heck were the Sea People?
An intriguing speculation results from reading Felice Vinci’s “The Baltic Origins of Homer’s Epic Poems”.
There are all sorts of theories about the Sea People. Obviously they were accomplished sailors who arrived on the Levant coast and Egypt as invaders so you’d look to the northern part of the Med.
So they could be sea-faring peoples from the Greek peninsula or islands. Might be forerunners of the Phoenicians.
Send a private email to Sunken Civ and he’ll give you links galore along with his educated opinion. He might even start a new thread to deepen your obsession. :-)