Raffaele D'Amato, Andrea Salimbeti

Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC-1000 BC (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Rava, Giuseppe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title features the latest historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in the last half of the Bronze Age. Research into the origins of the so-called Shardana, Shekelesh, Danuna, Lukka, Peleset and other peoples is a detective 'work in progress'. However, it is known that they both provided the Egyptian pharaohs with mercenaries, and were listed among Egypt's enemies and invaders. They contributed to the collapse of several civilizations through their dreaded piracy and raids, and their waves of attacks were followed by major migrations that changed the face of this region, from modern Libya and Cyprus to the Aegean, mainland Greece, Lebanon and Anatolian Turkey. Drawing on carved inscriptions and papyrus documents - mainly from Egypt - dating from the 15th-11th centuries BC, as well as carved reliefs of the Medinet Habu, this title reconstructs the formidable appearance and even the tactics of the famous 'Sea Peoples'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472806833
• Artikelnr.: 42186249

Autorenporträt

Raffaele D'Amato, PhD, is the author of some 40 books and has written numerous articles on the Roman Empire, Byzantium, medieval Europe and the military of Ancient Greece. He has taught at the University of Ferrara, and was a visiting professor at Fatih University, Istanbul. He currently lives in England, working as an archaeological consultant and lawyer for Timeline Auctions Ltd of Harwich, and also as an external researcher for the Laboratory of the Danubian Provinces at the University of Ferrara.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: who were the Sea Peoples? /Chronology /The historical sources: the Byblos obelisk
the Armana letters
Rameses II and the Battle of Kadesh inscriptions
the Libyan despatch to Merneptah
the Medinet Habu reliefs of Rameses III
the Onomastican of Amenemope /The different groups: Shardana/ Sherden, Danuna, Karkisha & Lukka, Peleset, Shekelesh/ Tjekker, Sea Wheshesh /Clothing & military equipment: headdress, helmets
corselets
shields
spears & javelins
swords & daggers
chariots /Military organization: chariots and infantry
siege warfare
naval warfare /Campaigns: as pirates and Egyptian mercenaries, 14th century BC
the Kadesh campaign, 1285 BC
first Egyptian campaign, 1207 BC
fall of the Hittite Empire, c.1200 BC
the War of the 8th Year, 1184 BC
Libya, 1180 BC
Western Mediterranean, c.1100 BC /Sites, museums & bibliography /Index