They did invade. The were stopped, apparently in a battle in or around the Nile Delta led by Ramses the 3rd (I think). OTL they are driven off and became the Phillistenes.
They win, kill Ramses. Set up dynasty. This might be good for Egypt and the OTL Pharohs don't seem to be anything to write home about and a conquering dynasty would be led by more effective leaders. IMHO very do able.
AFAIK/C, the Sea Peoples were from the Black Sea. Egypt had black pharoahs from Ethiopia, I don't think this would change much. So all that would change is that Egypt can add whatever proto-Slav Sarmatian Pontics or whatever to their list of dynasts.
AFAIK/C, the Sea Peoples were from the Black Sea. Egypt had black pharoahs from Ethiopia, I don't think this would change much. So all that would change is that Egypt can add whatever proto-Slav Sarmatian Pontics or whatever to their list of dynasts.
Pio2013 said:Sea Peoples is a term that encompass many nations, their identification is based only on similar linguistics and the egyptian history, thats why its hard to track them, but i assume if they win in Egypt, perhaps they wouldnt be so unknown..
The archaeological evidence from the southern coastal plain of ancient Palestine, termed Philistia in the Hebrew Bible, indicates a disruption of the Canaanite culture that existed during the Late Bronze Age and its replacement (with some integration) by a culture with a possibly foreign (mainly Aegean) origin. This includes distinct pottery, which at first belongs to the Mycenaean IIIC tradition (albeit of local manufacture) and gradually transforms into a uniquely Philistine pottery. Mazar says:
... in Philistia, the producers of Mycenaean IIIC pottery must be identified as the Philistines. The logical conclusion, therefore, is that the Philistines were a group of Mycenaean Greeks who immigrated to the east ... Within several decades ... a new bichrome style, known as the "Philistine", appeared in Philistia ...
The identifications of Denyen with the Greek Danaans and Ekwesh with the Greek Achaeans are long-standing issues in Bronze Age scholarship, whether Greek, Hittite or Biblical, especially as they lived "in the isles". If the Greeks do appear as Sea Peoples, what were they doing? Michael Wood gives a good summary of the question and the hypothetical role of the Greeks (who have already been proposed as the identity of the Philistines above):
... were the sea peoples ... in part actually composed of Mycenaean Greeks – rootless migrants, warrior bands and condottieri on the move ...? Certainly there seem to be suggestive parallels between the war gear and helmets of the Greeks ... and those of the Sea Peoples ...