Peoples of the Sea by Immanuel Velikovsky - 1977

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. h/b 261 pages, condition is very good. Who were the Peoples of the Sea? Up to now it has been thought that they must have been barbarians from the north, who swept down upon the Mediterranean, destroying the Hittite, Mycenean and other civilizations, and that they were eventually driven back by Ramses III of Egypt in the twelfth century B.C. The invasion of Egypt was thought to have been undertaken by the mysterious Peoples of the Sea and the Pereset (hitherto identified as the Philistines), initiating a dark age of about 500 years, when civilization was virtually extinguished. Velikovsky, however, provides evidence that Ramses III lived 800 years later; that the events in question took place in the first part of the fourth century B.C.; and that the Peoples of the Sea were Greek mercenaries and the Pereset were Persians.