The "Sea Peoples" were non-existent, in that they have left behind no distinctive weapons, graves, written language, forts, towns or other construction, and most oddly, no shipwrecks. Anywhere. Regurgitating erroneous dates from wikipedia etc is meaningless.
Dr. Velikovsky points out (p. 35) that "in the hieroglyphic texts of the Persian era... Persia is always called P-r-s" and that in the Canopus Decree, cut in stone, in 238 B.C., the Persians are referred to as P-r-s-tt. (There were no vowels in the alphabet.) The Canopus Decree is written both in Egyptian and in Greek. In Egyptian it describes the carrying off of the sacred images of Egypt by the Pereset and in Greek it tells of them being carried off by the Persians. But Dr. Velikovsky did not limit his identification of the Pereset as Persians to this evidence, although it would have been enough for a less careful and exacting scholar. In addition, he compares the clothing, armaments and appearances of the Persian soldiers and officers, as they are depicted in the bas reliefs in Persepolis and Nakhsh-i-Rustam, with those of the Pereset as depicted in the murals of the temple at Habinet Habu. The striking similarities are unmistakable. Finally, Dr. Velikovsky compares, step by step, the events described in annals left by Ramses III of his war with the Pereset and the Peoples of the Sea, with the descriptions by Diodorus of Sicily of the details of the war of Nectanebo I against the Persians and the Greek mercenaries. This comparison is made in such meticulous detail that the only logical conclusions are that both were describing the same war; that the Pereset and the Persians were the same people and that Ramses III was the Pharaoh whom the Greeks called "Nectanebo I." Incidentally, Dr. Velikovsky, quoting E. Wallis Budge, The Book of Kings (London 1908) Vol. II p. I, points out that one of the "Horus names" of Ramses III was Nectanebo (Nekht-a-neb).
Letter to the Editor of the New York Times Book Review by E. R. Langenbac, May 2, 1977
“Dr. Velikovsky”
The same Russian psychiatrist who asserted (in his “Worlds in Collision”) that around 3,500 years ago the planet Venus was somehow ejected from the planet Jupiter as a comet. That Comet Venus then started wandering through the solar system, its gravitational field pushing other planets out of their orbits, changing their rotation, causing the Earth to rock on its axis, stopping and starting its rotation. Then in the eighth century B.C., the Venus comet pushed Mars out of its proper orbit and into a close encounter with Earth, which caused earthquakes to shake the world, and shortened the year so that ancient astrologers were forced to develop a new calendar.
That Velikovsky?