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The Trojan War was a grander event than even Homer would have us believe. The famous conflict may have been one of the final acts in what one archaeologist has controversially dubbed “World War Zero” – an event he claims brought the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age world crashing down 3200 years ago.
And the catalyst for the war? A mysterious and arguably powerful civilisation almost entirely overlooked by archaeologists: the Luwians.
By the second millennium BC, civilisation had taken hold throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian New Kingdom coexisted with the Hittites of central Anatolia and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, among others.
In little more than a single generation, they had all collapsed. Was the culprit climate change? Some sort of earthquake storm? Social unrest? Archaeologists can’t seem to agree.
originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of ‘sea people’
The Trojan War was a grander event than even Homer would have us believe. The famous conflict may have been one of the final acts in what one archaeologist has controversially dubbed “World War Zero” – an event he claims brought the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age world crashing down 3200 years ago.
And the catalyst for the war? A mysterious and arguably powerful civilisation almost entirely overlooked by archaeologists: the Luwians.
By the second millennium BC, civilisation had taken hold throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian New Kingdom coexisted with the Hittites of central Anatolia and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, among others.
In little more than a single generation, they had all collapsed. Was the culprit climate change? Some sort of earthquake storm? Social unrest? Archaeologists can’t seem to agree.
Read the article for the rest;
The Luwians were but one component of the rapid changing of the balance of power in the Med during this era, the 'Sea Peoples' ranged from Andalusia to Anatolia and were made up of a large number of disparate groups, among them Phoenicians and Tartessians in addition to Luwians, and were causing the 'Old Guards' to wage war for survival. My belief is that the Sea Peoples originated in Andalusia when Tartessians met Phoenicians and spread eastward to incorporate additional cultures who were always on the 'outs' with the major powers. Luwians and Phoenicians both hated the Hittites, and it's no wonder that the Sea People raids along the eastern Med skipped over Phoenician settlements while attacking neighboring Hittite ones. (I also believe it was the Sea Peoples who were the "Atlantians" of Plato's discourses, jumbled up with other tales he encountered in his travels.)
originally posted by: Drawsoho
Mermaid existence has been demonstrated with the 1994 kid's video
of a stranded sea creature on a beach near his home as shown on the
Animal Planet special show. This shows the 'sea creature" , mermaid,
humanoid, ect., that definitely is living in the oceans. Given for a
moment that the video is 100% genuine, ask yourself if it is possible,
necessary and right. Perhaps these are the sea dwellers in legend.
If all of human consciousness could have been accumulated over the
millennia and eon(s), it's contents would represent billions if not trillions
of people. The fault with people is societies' violence. Eventually a war
would break out that would be the mother of all wars.
www.youtube.com...
a reply to: Blackmarketeer
posted on May, 13 2016 @ 08:42 PM
originally posted by: Drawsoho
Mermaid existence has been demonstrated with the 1994 kid's video
of a stranded sea creature on a beach near his home as shown on the
Animal Planet special show. This shows the 'sea creature" , mermaid,
humanoid, ect., that definitely is living in the oceans. Given for a
moment that the video is 100% genuine, ask yourself if it is possible,
necessary and right. Perhaps these are the sea dwellers in legend.
If all of human consciousness could have been accumulated over the
millennia and eon(s), it's contents would represent billions if not trillions
of people. The fault with people is societies' violence. Eventually a war
would break out that would be the mother of all wars.
www.youtube.com...
a reply to: Blackmarketeer
hoax
www.dailymail.co.uk...
What has been will be again.
What has been done will be done again.
There is nothing new under the sun.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of ‘sea people’
The Trojan War was a grander event than even Homer would have us believe. The famous conflict may have been one of the final acts in what one archaeologist has controversially dubbed “World War Zero” – an event he claims brought the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age world crashing down 3200 years ago.
And the catalyst for the war? A mysterious and arguably powerful civilisation almost entirely overlooked by archaeologists: the Luwians.
By the second millennium BC, civilisation had taken hold throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian New Kingdom coexisted with the Hittites of central Anatolia and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, among others.
In little more than a single generation, they had all collapsed. Was the culprit climate change? Some sort of earthquake storm? Social unrest? Archaeologists can’t seem to agree.
Read the article for the rest;
The Luwians were but one component of the rapid changing of the balance of power in the Med during this era, the 'Sea Peoples' ranged from Andalusia to Anatolia and were made up of a large number of disparate groups, among them Phoenicians and Tartessians in addition to Luwians, and were causing the 'Old Guards' to wage war for survival. My belief is that the Sea Peoples originated in Andalusia when Tartessians met Phoenicians and spread eastward to incorporate additional cultures who were always on the 'outs' with the major powers. Luwians and Phoenicians both hated the Hittites, and it's no wonder that the Sea People raids along the eastern Med skipped over Phoenician settlements while attacking neighboring Hittite ones. (I also believe it was the Sea Peoples who were the "Atlantians" of Plato's discourses, jumbled up with other tales he encountered in his travels.)
As you have pointed out, the "sea people" actually consisted of several maritime nations from around the Mediterranean sea.
Despite their ethnic differences, there was a commonality of culture and belief. Central to their cultures were, most likely, sea gods and goddesses like Poseidon/Neptune, Lotan, Nu, Osiris, Leviathan, Asherah, Nammu and Dagon.
The Phoenicians were most frequently referred to as "the people of the sea" in ancient texts.
originally posted by: Drawsoho
Mermaid existence has been demonstrated with the 1994 kid's video
of a stranded sea creature on a beach near his home as shown on the
Animal Planet special show.
originally posted by: SargonThrall
a reply to: Blackmarketeer
I've read some of the work of Fred Woudhuizen and he has some fascinating notes. He did a book all about the Luwian language. Personally I believe the Sea Peoples came from west Anatolia with supplementary forces from modern Greece.
originally posted by: BigBrotherDarkness
Ah the sea peoples, if it werent for Ramses II theyd have decimated everything...
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: BigBrotherDarkness
Ah the sea peoples, if it werent for Ramses II theyd have decimated everything...
Thus, according to Ramesses II.
And Pharaohs never lie.
Harte
originally posted by: BigBrotherDarknessThey arent mysterious though they are the peoples of the entire island groups from Hawaii around the tip of Austrailia Gilbert/Solomon island group all the way up to Easter Island. Thats what I deciphered from the phaistos disc, its pictography not a language.
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The Sea Peoples were a confederacy of naval raiders who harried the coastal towns and cities of the Mediterranean region between c. 1276-1178 BCE