English Explanatory Dictionary

Sea Peoples

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.

Word forms

Sea Peoples the Sea Peoples

Etymology

Calque of Egyptian nꜣ ḫꜣswt nt pꜣ ym (“the peoples/foreigners of the sea”), as written in the Great Karnak Inscription.

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