The Iron Age and the Persian Period (1200-332 BC)

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The Iron Age began with political upheaval in the Near East. The Hittite empire to the north (Anatolia) and the Egyptian empire to the south, which both dominated the Levantine coast in the Late Bronze Age, lost their hegemony and withdrew from the region. People arrived by sea along the coast from Syria to Egypt. They are grouped together under the generic term “Sea Peoples” which includes the Philistines. Their arrival on the Palestinian coast in 1175 BC marked the beginning of the Iron Age...

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