Sea Peoples of Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat

Did an invasion of the Sea Peoples cause the collapse of the Late Bronze Age palace-based economies of the Levant, as well as of the Hittite Empire? Renewed excavations at Tell Tayinat in southeast Turkey are shedding new light on the critical transitional phase of the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-1000 B.C.), a period that in the Northern Levant has until recently been considered a "e;Dark...