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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Tel Dor
[Ayelet Gilboa, University of Haifa] One of the main [inaudible] outcomes are what we call the movements of the Sea Peoples which are still, after 100 years of research, a very mysterious group of people. Most people think that they came from somewhere in the West -- maybe Greece, maybe Anatolia -- which is West to us -- possibly Cyprus -- and settled in our region on the coast of the Levant. Now among these people, the most celebrated, the most famous ones are the Philistines. We all know the Philistines from the Bible. But there were many groups of Sea People. We know them, name by name, from the Egyptian records -- mainly from the Egyptian records -- and from some Canaanite records, too. Among them -- again there were many -- but were such people as Sikila, Shardana, Lukka, Eqwosh, and many other names which are very hard to define archaeologically.
[Narrator] What can we learn from the Canaan and Egyptian sources?
In Medinet Habu, in upper Egypt, a monumental inscription dating from Ramesses III,
describes attacks carried out by unknown invaders.
The carvings show a military campaign and a naval battle: capsized boats, archers, men fallen into the sea.
Egypt's adversaries are clearly depicted.
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