Pierre Grandet wrote: “In year eight, Egypt was faced with another threat of invasion—this time on its Mediterranean shore and its northeastern frontier—by a group of peoples of probable heterogeneous ethnicity, but whom the Egyptians clearly perceived as a kind of confederation of related tribes. This perception was mainly due to two features common to all these tribes: their being equipped wit..

ORIGIN OF THE PHOENICIANS AND CANAANITES, SEA PEOPLES AND PHILISTINES ORIGIN OF THE PHOENICIANS Early History of the Phoenicians Canaanites, First Inhabitants of Lebanon Canaanites at Ashkelon Ugarit Ugarites and the First Alphabet Philistines, Phoenicians and Sea Peoples Sea Peoples Egypt and the Sea Peoples Invasion of the Sea Peoples Ramses III Defeats the Sea Peoples Philistines Philistines ..