article_snippet.sent: The demise of the powerful ancient civilisations has long been blamed on a mysterious group of seafaring raiders known as the Sea Peoples.
article_snippet.sent: These marauding people have been credited with having invaded and destroyed large swathes of Ancient Egypt, Hittite, Mycenian and Mitanni kingdoms around the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: the Sea Peoples, shown here fighting ancient Egyptian forces, were widely blamed for the collapse of many of the great civilisations in the Near East and Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze age 3,200 years ago .
article_snippet.sent: The map above shows many of the suspected invasions made by the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC .
article_snippet.sent: Ugarit, a port city in ancient Syria that traded with the Hittites and Egypt was destroyed and the involvment of the Sea People's is mentioned in four letters found at the site of the city.
article_snippet.sent: Archaeologists also point to the widespread destruction around much of the Mediterranean at the time.
article_snippet.sent: However Professor Cline says in Professor Cline book that the Sea People's may have been unfairly blamed for causing the collapse of these great civilisations.