1 out 1185 ano antes da era comum - Ramses Temple Inscription

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THE TROJAN WAR: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE by Gerard Gertoux

The temple of Ramses III (1192-1161) at Medinet Habu contains an account of his victory over the Sea Peoples. The identification of these peoples and their reasons for migration are poorly understood12, however, this great war is precisely dated year 8 of his reign (in 1185 BCE). This war led by the Sea Peoples had to haave been spread over less than one year because, according to the inscription of Ramses III, all countries (Hatti, the coast of Cilicia, Carchemish, Cyprus, etc.) were "destroyed all at once" and, according to the text of Homer, the sacking of the city of Priam [Troy], after 10 years of fighting, was followed "in less than 1 month" by the trip of Achaeans into Egypt and the sacking of its wonderful fields (Odyssey XIV:240-280). This destruction coincides with the end of the Hittite Empire dated year 2 of Meli-Shipak13, which can be dated October 1185 BCE. In fact many other cities were destroyed: Thebes, Lefkandi, Tiryns, Mycenae and Pylos in mainland Greece and Chania in Crete were ransacked and in some cases completely destroyed. Most of these cities and their palaces were burned. In Anatolia, among the most important sites, archaeological levels similarly destroyed have been found and which date from the same period. Hattusa, the Hittite capital, was sacked and burned just like the major cities of Cyprus. On the north coast of Syria, the flourishing city of Ugarit was destroyed and never inhabited thereafter. Mesopotamia was preserved as the wave of devastation did not extend to the east, and it was the Egyptians who alone could stop it.

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