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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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They are wearing plumed helmets with chin-straps, and sometimes strange horned helmets. A visual account of the horrors of a battle.
In less than one century -- the 12th -- the Sea Peoples occupied the entire coast.
[Israel Finkelstein] It would be a mistake to understand every single destruction of a Canaanite city-state as a result of an attack by the Sea People. The entire eastern Mediterranean was in a complete turmoil. The economy was destructed, maritime trade routes were cut, ports on the Mediterranean coast were destroyed, were attacked and taken. In a situation like this, of economy falling, famine, political dysfunction, then one city can attack another; a gang of people from the highlands can take a city; pastoral nomads can come also and try to gain some advantage by attacking a single city, isolated city. Everything was in chaos.
[Narrator] While the city-states were collapsing, one-by-one,
another development was secretly unfolding in the highlands.
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