The Sea Peoples and the Bronze Age Collapse?

by PaladinShark

I was doing some cursory research on the Bronze Age, as it always interested me. Then I can across something that seemed almost apocalyptic, but was almost a footnote. Who were these sea people? Did they have a cultural name? What did they look like? Were they Greek esque, Italian, Egyptian, what? Where did they come from? How did they travel such a long way? How did they bring such a massive army that could overwhelm so many civilizations? And most importantly, why do we know absolutely nothing about such a gigantic invasion of these people?

silverappleyard

Not to discourage further answers, but we have a section of the FAQ dedicated to questions on the sea people. The ones from u/kookingpot and u/bentresh provide a good overview of what we know about the Sea People. The AMA with Eric Cline gets into a lot more detailed questions.

ETA There is also this more recent slightly expanded answer from u/kookingpot.