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Dr. Jesse M. Millek discusses the misconceptions surrounding the Sea Peoples and the transformations of the Late Bronze Age.

For a hundred and fifty years we were told the same story, that the Sea Peoples came in off the water around 1200 BC and burned the Late Bronze Age to the ground, city by city, until nothing was left but ash for centuries. Netherlands Institute for the Near East Archaeologist Jesse Millek walks back into that rubble with a lantern and finds most of it was never there, that more than half the destructions inked onto our maps of the eastern Mediterranean simply did not happen. From Ugarit to Cyprus to the Levantine coast he traces the trade routes that kept breathing and the Canaanite cities that quietly turned Phoenician, the slow honest truth of a world that transformed instead of falling.PATREON https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADOX LOST PRE-SALE: https://buy.stripe.com/7sY7sKdoN5d29eUdYddEs0bHOMEBREW MUSIC - Check out our new album!Hard Copies (Vinyl): FREE SHIPPING https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.com/products/vinyl-lp-secretary-of-nature-everything-is-so-good-hereStreaming:https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-so-good-herePARADIGM DRIFThttps://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-show00:00 Go! 00:01:52 Sea Peoples as a Modern Invention00:10:02 Tel…

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Host: DemystifySci

Guest: Dr. Jesse M. Millek

Topics covered

• Bronze Age
• Sea Peoples
• Archaeology
• Cultural Transformation
• Trade Routes
• Historical Narratives

Keywords

• Sea Peoples
• Bronze Age Collapse
• Archaeology
• Canaanites
• Phoenicians
• Trade Routes
• Destruction Myths

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netherlands Institute for the Near East

Places: eastern Mediterranean, Ugarit, Cyprus, Levantine coast, Canaanite, Phoenician

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