Quote Originally Posted by vartan View Post
The so-called Sea Peoples were simply Phoenicians last I read about them. Their first conflicts with Egypt proved decisive as Egypt had not yet developed the weapons the Phoenicians had before. They adapted eventually, truth be told. I think Tyre was their eventual home-city. They were a sea merchants people with Carthage as one of the many port-cities.
The Peleset were Greek. Their pottery was essentially Mycenaean and they settled in southern Kanaan, at first building Mycenaean-style palaces before adopting Kanaanite culture.