Some fascinating new research for those still thinking about Episode 2, The Bronze Age Collapse
Added 2019-07-09 10:15:03 +0000 UTCDNA analysis on descendants of at least one group of "Sea Peoples" traces their origins to southern Europe.
'The DNA data suggest a kernel of truth to Greek and Middle Eastern legends that describe survivors who moved south after the catastrophic collapse of great Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean in the late 13th and early 12th centuries B.C.E. "This [DNA] story of migration is tantalizingly close to those memories," says co-author Daniel Master of Wheaton College in Illinois, who leads excavations in Ashkelon, Israel.'
