See the first pages here. The city also sat astride an important north-south coastal trade route linking Anatolia and Egypt. [xlvii] Markoe,  Peoples of the Past: Phoenicians, pp. [Source: Pierre Grandet, 2014, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 2013 escholarship.org <>], The Sea Peoples annihilated the Hittite Empire and looked they might do the same to the Egyptians. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. She sees the Phoenicians as a diverse group of people who may have had some common links, but who were never one country or one “collective”. ‘The foreign countries plotted on their Islands and the people were scattered by battle all at one time and no land could stand before their arms.’, Pierre Grandet wrote: “In year eight, Egypt was faced with another threat of invasion—this time on its Mediterranean shore and its northeastern frontier—by a group of peoples of probable heterogeneous ethnicity, but whom the Egyptians clearly perceived as a kind of confederation of related tribes. [xliii] Sandars,  The Sea Peoples, p. 183. [xiii] Betancourt, Philip P. “The Aegean and the Origin of the Sea Peoples”  The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment  (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2000), pp. Preview. In the early 2000s, Spencer Wells, a geneticist at Harvard, and Pierre Zalloua, a geneticist at the American University in Beirut, took blood samples from people in areas where the Phoenicians lived in Lebanon, Tunisia and Spain to gain some insight into where the Phoenicians came from, who they were and what happened to them based on clues that could be gleaned from their DNA. {The}y {[set up]} a camp in one place in Amor (near Ugarit). Conquered by the Egyptians and Babylonians, it was probably visited by Samson, Goliath, Alexander the Great, Herod and Richard the Lion-hearted. Instead these sea traders had to push far afield to western Anatolia, the Aegean and the Black Sea—the areas which gave rise to the Sea Peoples. Maria Eugenia Aubet, a leading Phoenician expert at Pempeu Fabra University in Barcelona, told National Geographic: “I think they became friends, Phoenician material culture shows so many elements from the Sea Peoples. This view was championed by R. D. Barnett[v] and by others such as Eberhard Zangger[vi]. 1208 BC  —  King Merneptah of Egypt turned back an incursion by the Sea Peoples and Libyans at the Nile Delta. Before answering that question, let us examine the intense pressures which were mounting upon the Phoenicians. However, since their writings were made on papyrus, little remains except what has been written about them by Greek and Egyptian scholars. In the Ugarite system each sign consisted of one consonant plus any vowel. An important element mentioned by many sources, and yet given consideration by virtually none, is the simple fact that—in the midst of a cataclysm which destroyed almost every city in the eastern Mediterranean area—the Phoenician cities remained untouched. The Phoenician cities were untouched by this devastation that happened around them, which left these people in an advantageous      position. DNA evidence indicates that most people that live there are indigenous North Africans and they did not come from the Middle East either during Phoenician era or during the Islamic expansion in the A.D. 7th century. The Sea Peoples, like the Phoenicians, were excellent navigators---and how they knew the routes west to the rich sources of metals." For reasons not yet fully understood, the massive disruptions caused elsewhere in the Levant appear to have had a minimal effect upon the Phoenician coastal centers. 367-368. The Phoenicians were among the few civilizations unhindered by the Bronze Age Collapse and the attack of the “Sea Peoples.” In fact, this also marked the start of their golden age. Questions or comments, e-mail ajhays98@yahoo.com, Early Man and Ancient History - Ancient Persian, Arabian, Phoenician and Near East Cultures. The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Philistine as a “smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.”. At the heart of it all were a mysterious people: the Phoenicians. ^^^. The Phoenicians would have had every reason to fear an imminent campaign southward by the Hittites. The Sea Peoples, on land, were defeated and scattered but their navy continued towards the eastern Nile delta. They were manned [completely] from bow to stern with valiant warriors bearing their arms, soldiers of all the choicest of Egypt, being like lions roaring upon the mountain-tops. Most scholars believe that the Phoenicians were, in reality, Canaanites who lived along the Mediterranean Sea on the western edge of Asia Minor, in modern day Lebanon and Syria. 10-23. Year: 2004. 170-188. The Phoenicians made numerous contributions to human civilization, the most notable of which being the Phoenician alphabet, which is the ancestor of many other alphabets that are used today. Although a precise localization of both these battles is impossible, our sources locate them on the shore of the Delta and in “Djahy,” an Egyptian name for Canaan. [xlv] Barnett,  “The Sea Peoples”, pp. 8-304. This perception was mainly due to two features common to all these tribes: their being equipped with Mycenaean weaponry and their geographical origin being “their isles” or “the sea,” an Egyptian designation for the Aegean world, the confederation comprised two main peoples: the Pulasti and the Sikala, helped by the lesser Shakalusha , Danuna , and Washasha , Peleset, Shekelesh, Denen , and Weshesh ). they, like the Hebrews, were conquered by the Assyrians. The Phoenicians managed to spread their influence because they ventured beyond their homeland both physically and intellectually to explore the world and the riches it had to offer. On the link between the Sea People and Phoenicians, Maria Eugenia Aubet, a leading Phoenician expert at Pempeu Fabra University in Barcelona, told National Geographic: “I think they became friends, Phoenician material culture shows so many elements from the Sea Peoples. Modern-day Lebanese look upon their Phoenician heritage with pride. First, let us consider the documented history of these cities, and note whether any destruction occurred to them during the time being studied. As the Amarna letters showed, however, that protection was somewhere between weak and non-existent, with raiders coming into Phoenician lands unimpeded.[xxii]. We have some idea what the Canaanites looked like. Their hearts were confident, full of their plans. There they were met by the armies of Ramses III and a great battle was fought—with a second battle being fought in the Nile Delta—according to descriptions on his funerary temple at Medinet Habu in Thebes.[xli]. at the hands of the Sea Peoples, of whom the best known are the Philistines. They carried with them the Mysteries of the Cabiri wherever they went. ISBN 13: 9781595152367. Bronze Shardana (Sherden) Warrior with … The desolate Valley of Hinom, just south of the Old City in Jerusalem, is where the ancient Canaanites reportedly conducted human sacrifices in which children were immolated in front of their parents. C ilicia, Cyprus, Ugarit, and even the Hatti fell to their attacks, which reached inland as far as Karkemish on the Euphrates. It looks at the evidence that points to a series of catastrophic events in the western Mediterranean during the Bronze Age which culminated in the final and utter collapse of the Myceneaen colonial power of the El Argar in Spain in about 1350 BC. While the bulk of them proceeded by land, their advance was preceded by nautical raids against the coast and the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean. By comparison Babylon at that time might have had 30,000 residents. This form of religion was revived by the early Hebrew prophets. [ix] Markoe, Glenn  Peoples of the Past: Phoenicians  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), p. 24. With their wives, children and household possessions in two-wheeled carts, the Sea Peoples—now more properly the Land Peoples—flowed across the former Hittite territory. The Sea Peoples were the Proto-Phonecians. Then the rise of the Mycenaeans[xix] caused sea trade in the Aegean—and even as far as Cyprus—to fall into the hands of that new power. An Egyptian wall painting from 1900 B.C. [xxxvi] Sandars,  The Sea Peoples, p. 197. 366-367. However, much of our knowledge about the Phoenicians during the Iron Age (ca. The results were highly conclusive. The Phoenicians learned from them how to build harbors, moorings, docks, and piers. [xl] Finkelstein, Israel  “The Philistine Settlements: When, Where and How Many?”  The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment  (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2000), p. 159. 298-300. Now nothing stood in the way of the Sea Peoples’ exodus. Pages: 48 / 47. |*|, “In many ways, one can summarize the material culture from Phoenicia and its colonies as reflecting developments on Canaanite culture from the Bronze Age. Categories: History. With plentiful supplies of fresh water, it was a major exporters of wine, olive oil, wheat and livestock. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Even though the Hittites were the long-time adversaries of virtually all the people who made up the Sea Peoples, the Hittites had no excess of food, so the first strike had gone against Egypt. . Nebuchadnezzar is said to have destroyed Ashkelon to send a warning to cities in the region of what would await them if they sided with the Egyptians. The Mycenaeans continued to hold the Aegean and attacked the Anatolian people from the seaward side. [xxiii] Bryce,  The Kingdom of the Hittites, p. 306. A thick layer of charred wood and debris marks the sacking of the city by the Babylonians. They emerged as a significant cultural and political force around 1100 B.C. “The History of Ancient Egypt: An Overview”  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East  (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995), p. 708. Books: Curtis, Adrian Ugarit (Ras Shamra). We will soon see how the Mycenaeans fit into the events of this time—however it is already clear they were not the Sea Peoples. (These) lands were united, and they laid their hands upon the land as far as the Circle of the Earth. The Phoenician people had been dominant sea traders in the Mediterranean prior to 1500 BC [xvii], [xviii] and in some cases had partnered with others to maintain that position. The Phoenicians were an ancient people who lived in what is now Lebanon (and some surrounding areas). https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/phoenicians-0012120 It is clear that the city dominated the surrounding land (though the full extent of the kingdom is uncertain).. \^/, “Merchants figure prominently in Ugarit's archives. | Teacher: Mauricio TorresChapter 3, Section 1 (page 72 in your books) 2. Sea trade of Phoenicia 1. He established a defensive line in Southern Palestine and requisitioned every available ship to secure the mouth of the Nile. They were able to turn their full attention to the Hittites. That there was a relationship or partnership of some nature between the Sea Peoples and the Phoenicians is clearly in evidence. How "People of the Sea" Came to Be The Egyptians originally coined the name "Peoples of the Sea" for the foreign contingents that the Libyans brought in to support their attack on Egypt in c. 1220 BC during the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah. But when the Sea Peoples arrived on Levantine shores, the clever Phoenicians paid them off — or at least that’s what historians have surmised. They were one of about a half dozen or more Sea People that arrived in the eastern Mediterranean in the 12th century B.C. The chief cities of Phoenicia … In the civil war era, Maronite Christians claimed they were they descendants of Phoenicians and the Muslims were not. The bad rap the Philistines get seems to be based on the fact hat they fought with the Israelites for the better part of two centuries. Using any of the other dates within these bands does not change the outcome. It was also the central storage place for grain supplies moving from the wheat plains of northern Syria to the Hittite court.” \^/. Similarly there was no evidence of the Mycenaeans destroying the Hittite empire, nor of their forming vast caravans of people moving by land down the Levantine coast. According to the Bible, the ancient Canaanites, were idol worshipers who practiced human sacrifice and engaged in deviant sexual activity. [xii] Rather than disproving the current assertion, this remarkable treatment of Arwad adds to the view that the Phoenicians were accorded a special status by the invading peoples. They engulfed Ugarit and came to the borders of Phoenicia. In the late 1980s, archaeologists discovered the remains of Ekron, a 60-acre walled city with around 6,000 residents before it was destroyed in 603 B.C. The land was good. [xvi] Wachsmann,  “To the Sea of the Philistines”, pp. They were called Sidonians in the Bible. Some of the them, including the biblical Philistines and the Phoenicians — both of whom are regarded as descendants of the Sea Peoples — settled in Palestine and The Levant respectively. "It is remarkably rare in modern populations today, found in Europe at levels of less than one percent.The matriarchal DNA of the man, whose remains were found by gardeners working outside the National Museum of Carthage in 1994, "most closely matches that of the sequence of a particular modern day individual from Portugal. [xxxiv] McDonald and Thomas,  Progress into the Past: The Rediscovery of Mycenaean Civilization,   p. 459. Carthage was a prominent Phoenician port and trade center established by colonists from Lebanon. [xxviii] Barnett,  “The Sea Peoples”, p. 366. If you would like to discover more about the Phoenicians than what is covered in this article, the book “Phoenician Secrets” is recommended. Also, as noted earlier, refugees from the shattered Mycenaean world would eventually come to live among the Sea Peoples, though they did not begin to arrive in Cyprus and Palestine until the latter part of the 12th century BC.[xliii]. Looked outwards towards the sea to expand. The Canaanites occupied Ashkelon from 1850 until 1175 B.C. This paper attempts to interpret group identities along the Canaanite coast in the Early Iron Age, beginning with an analysis of functional and symbolic properties of ceramics. The Sea Peoples left no monuments or written records of their own; everything historians know about them comes from apocalyptic inscriptions created by the empires that did battle with them, especially the Ancient Egyptians.. even ventured beyond the Strait of Gibraltar as far as Britain in search of tin. Since little has survived of Phoenician records or literature, most of what is known about their origins and history comes from the accounts of other civilizations and inferences from their material culture excavated throughout the Mediterranean. [xiv] Bryce, Trevor  The Kingdom of the Hittites  (Oxford: Clerendon Press, 1998), pp. Baal was the Canaanites storm god. 9. By the 2nd millennium bce they had colonies in the Levant, North Africa, Anatolia, and Cyprus. The issue of Phoenician descendant became so divisive that the word Phoenician became taboo and was even absent from Phoenician displays in museums. They fought the Assyrians in the east, the fierce Kaska people who controlled the north shore of Anatolia, and they fought the several groups of people who divided western Anatolia among them. For nearly a century in the second millennium B.C., a mysterious band of maritime warriors known as the “Sea Peoples” wreaked havoc on the Mediterranean. A very large number of the Land and Sea Peoples continued onward and eventually arrived at the border between Canaan and Egypt. [Source: Pierre Grandet, 2014, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, 2013 escholarship.org <>]. See the first pages here. Relentless attacks by groups known as the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC virtually destroyed all the major powers of the Mediterranean, and cleared the way for the rise of the Greeks, Romans and Western civilization. [iv] Wachsmann, Shelley  “To the Sea of the Philistines”  The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment  (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2000), p. 122. They seem to have stuck mostly to themselves. 2, edited by Jack M. Sasson, pp. The Sea Peoples are a purported seafaring confederation that attacked ancient Egypt and other regions of the East Mediterranean prior to and during the Late Bronze Age collapse (1200–900 BCE). They were defeated by the armies of Ramses II in the 12th century B.C. [xvii] Holst, Sanford  “Origin of the Phoenician Trading Empire”  World History Association conference paper presented in Fairfax, Virginia, 2004, pp. DNA studies in Lebanon also reveal that both modern Muslims and Christians there share common Phoenician ancestors going back more than 5,000 years. There is therefore much continuity in Phoenician traditions from the Late Bronze Age until the Hellenistic period around 300 B.C.” \^/. In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. Their main support was Peleset, Thekel (Tjeker), Shekelesh, Denyen, and Weshesh. He also pointed out that widespread disruption of this system of distribution could have caused a collapse of the society and a descent into warfare and migration. Therefore the assumption was made that the Sea Peoples were Mycenaeans. [xxxv] Bryce,  The Kingdom of the Hittites, p. 399. The chaos created by each benefited the other, and the results suggest they came to share mutual enemies and mutual allies. A vast horde was marching south with a huge fleet at sea supporting the progress on land. Over time the remains of a lot of individuals could get crammed inside. Phoenicia, ancient region corresponding to modern Lebanon, with adjoining parts of modern Syria and Israel. ), the last great pharaoh of Egypt, is best known for defeating the Sea Peoples — a combination of several different peoples that some historian gave birth to the Phoenicians. Their origins undocumented, the various Sea P… A symbiotic relationship seems to have developed between those who were motivated to find good land for their families and those who simply wanted booty and adventure. Around 1180 B.C., Ramesis III defeated the Sea People in a land and sea battle at the borders of Egypt (ANEP., 341, 813). [v] Barnett, R. D.  “The Sea Peoples”  Cambridge Ancient History  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), Vol. Levant, (from the French lever, “to rise,” as in sunrise, meaning the east), historically, the countries along the eastern Mediterranean shores.Common use of the term is associated with Venetian and other trading ventures and the establishment of commerce with cities such as Tyre and Sidon as a result of… At the territory’s southeast corner they turned south on their path of destruction and, observing their special relationship with Phoenicia, they by-passed that land. They dominated four other major cities in the region around the same time. With her own colonies. (Albright notes that the wars of the "sea peoples" occured at 1190 B. C.) Dotan, The Philistines And Their Material Culture, 1967, p. 5 (Hebrew) 3 The reign of king David is generally accepted as having begun c. 1040 B. C. 4, pp. Experts differ over exactly how many battles were fought between Ramses and the Sea Peoples, as well as where they were fought. This led to a search being made in Greece to find the cause of the Sea Peoples migration. [xxi] Grimal, Nicolas  A History of Ancient Egypt  (French, translated into English by Ian Shaw)  (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), p. 215. The chiefs, the captains of infantry, the nobles, I caused to equip the harbor-mouths, like a strong wall, with warships, galleys, and barges. On this same subject, one might well ask what led to the special treatment the Phoenicians seem to have been given by the Sea People. But a problem had to be overcome. [xxxv] To deal with this, warriors and ships in the Sea Peoples confederacy poured from Anatolia and the Black Sea into the Aegean, where they ravaged the Mycenaeans in their islands and on the Greek mainland. [xlviii] Moscati, Sabatino  The Phoenicians  (New York: Rizzoli International, 1999/1988), pp. [xliv] Dothan, Trude  “The ‘Sea Peoples’ and the Philistines of Ancient Palestine”  Civilizations of the Ancient Near East  (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995), pp. Many theories have been advanced to explain these times, and their participants have been declared to come from Anatolia, or the Aegean, or even Atlantis. Save for later. Along with Israelites, they settled in the southern Levant. In the brutal hand to hand fighting which ensued the Sea People are utterly defeated. The Canaanites are believed to have been the first people to possess an alphabet. The now-open Aegean allowed ships belonging to the Sea Peoples to sail through those waters and begin to raid the Hittites all along their Mediterranean coast. | Teacher: Mauricio TorresChapter 3, Section 1 (page 72 in your books) 2. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art:. [x] Markoe,  Peoples of the Past: Phoenicians, p. 24. Download books for free. I guess that only adds to their mystery.”, Phoenicians inhabited the coastal cities, Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Arwad, in what is now Lebanon and southern Syria. Instead of being a civilization of pleasure-seeking ignoramuses, archaeologists found that the Philistines were an industrious, innovative Iron Age civilization that grew rich from selling olives and dying cloth, and developed sophisticated metal tools and olive crushing machines. That the sign for “p” could be “pa,” “pi” or “pu.” Ugarit was passed on to the Semitic tribes of the Middle east, which included the Phoenician, Hebrews and later the Arabs. The island city of Tyre and the city of Sidon were the most powerful states in Phoenicia with Gebal/ Byblos and Baalbek as the most important spiritual/religious centers. Flowing down through Canaan they destroyed the cities they encountered. they dominated the Mediterranean Sea by extending a string of colonies throughout the region. The great enemies of the post-Moses Hebrews were the Philistines, a tribe that arrived in Canaan from Crete and lived along the Mediterranean coast in cities like Ekron (20 miles southwest of Jerusalem). The Phoenicians: Mysterious Sea People (Ancient Civilizations) [Reece, Katherine] on Amazon.com. Canaanite Ashkelon covered 60 hectares. DNA evidence seems to indicate the impact of the Sea People, if they existed, were a cultural and technological group, not a blood group. [viii] Bikai, Patricia  The Pottery of Tyre  (Warminster, UK: Aris & Phillips, 1978), pp. Both sexes wore bright red and yellow clothes---long dresses for women and kilts by the men. There is no such mystery about the origins of the Phoenicians. Genetic studies indicate that many of the people in Lebanon are descendants of Phoenicians and Canaanites while their impact in North Africa was minimal. In addition to considering the other theories mentioned above, a composite view is also considered—which brings together well-supported elements from the other theories. This city was in fact destroyed by the Sea Peoples[xi]—and after their incursion it was returned to the Phoenicians. [xxxii] In addition, by going through the Hittite land and Canaan, the Sea Peoples would bring a force numbering hundreds of thousands to confront the wheat-rich Egyptians—rather than the handful of warriors who had failed on the first attempt. Janson Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.), Compton’s Encyclopedia and various books and other publications. For example, they invented the phonetic alphabet; they were the first great maritime civilization whose people: were innovators in terms of maritime trade, navigation, sailing and shipbuilding. The starting point is the material culture of Dor, the SKL town according Some scholars believe it was a Canaanite, that is, a Phoenician innovation,5 but it is more likely attributable to the military needs of the Sea Peoples in the Amarna Age (14th–13th centuries B.C.E.) I think someone was probably cooking the puppy for food but never came back for it.” Stager thinks the puppy was buried in a pot that was already charred to bring good fortune for the building it was buried under. On the discovery of a puppy in pot, Paula Wapnish, an animal bone specialist at the University of Alabama, told National Geographic, “We think that somebody killed it and placed it in a pit in the ground.” Team member Brian Hesse added, “The pot has char marks. The Phoenicians were among the few civilizations unhindered by the Bronze Age Collapse and the attack of the “Sea Peoples.” In fact, this also marked the start of their golden age. Language: english. Take a look inside this book on Amazon. they had been absorbed into the Israelites. [xxiv] Bryce,  The Kingdom of the Hittites, p. 320. The traditional major milestone events in the Sea Peoples invasion are:[ii]. He postulated further that a simple two-year drought could have caused this whole system to collapse. He furnished my strength and caused my plans to prosper. They came with fire prepared before them, forward to Egypt. The Canaanites also had encounters with the Hyksos, a people who conquered lower kingdom of Egypt; and the Assyrians. Trevor Bryce[xiv] and others who examined conditions in Anatolia at this time found a completely different picture than the one shown in Mycenaean Greece. Where did the Phoenicians come from? While the Israelite were making crude, unadorned pottery, the Philistines were decorating their ceramics with designs similar to those produced in Mycenaean Greece, the civilization that defeated Troy in Homeric legend. Stager has suggested that the Canaanites perhaps were the Hyksos, mysterious people from the north that conquered the ancient Egyptians, based in the discovery of artifacts in Egypt from the Hyskso period that are identical with those found in Canaanite Ashkelon. In this interesting train of logic, Betancourt et al seem to have begun by observing that after the Sea Peoples were settled in Palestine there was a similarity between their pottery and that of the Mycenaeans. Phoenicians 1. Early Phoenicians lived in a small area of the coast in present-day Lebanon. [ix] This likewise was quite conclusive. From the best that can be ascertained the Phoenicians were a mix of peoples and states that eventually became a people of their own. During this time the Hittites continued to press southward. [xxx] Grant,  The Ancient Mediterranean, pp. It is divisible into two branches, their trade with their own colonists, and that with the natives of the various countries to which they penetrated in their voyages. <>, The Sea Peoples This great movement of people was well armed and desperate. Fisherman in Lebanon still chant "El...EEE...sa, El...EEE...sa," which is believed to have originally been and ode to Elisa, the Princess of Tyre (Virgils Dido), In May 2016, researchers announced that first DNA analysis of an ancient Phoenician — 2,500-year-old remains of a man from the Tunisian city of Carthage — showed that the man had European heritage. The word Philistine has come to mean a hedonistic, uneducated person. Among the cities they created were these in Morocco: Lixis (modern Larache), Sala (Rabat), Mogador (Essaouira) and Tingis (Tangier); in Spain: Gadir (Cadiz), Malaka (Malaga), Ibisa (Ibiza); in Algeria: Icosia (Algiers); in Tunisia: Utica and Carthage, both now gone; in Sardinia: Karalis (Cagliari); in Sicily: Panormus (Palermo); in Cyprus: Kition (Larnaca). They are famed for their commercial and maritime prowess and are recognised as having established harbours, trading posts and settlements throughout the Mediterranean basin. Betancourt noted there was an adequate supply of food at this time in Greece and that the population had grown very large. This issue has been touched upon briefly several times during this analysis, and it deserves to be addressed directly. Instead it was the Sea Peoples who took action. It is divisible into two branches, their trade with their own colonists, and that with the natives of the various countries to which they penetrated in their voyages. And this was long before the coming of the Greeks. Yet the actual Sea Peoples did all these things. Although the name of the city was known from Egyptian and Hittite sources, its location and history were a mystery until the accidental discovery in 1928 of an ancient tomb at the small Arab village of Ras Shamra. We will consider the various theories, as well as a new composite view which does not appear to have been considered previously. As for those who had assembled before them on the sea, the full flame was in their front, before the harbor-mouths, and a wall of metal upon the shore surrounded them. In the Bible the Philistines were characterized as thugish destroyers. 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