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Could these warriors be related in some way to the Sea Peoples? And if so were they to blame for the Bronze Age Collapse?

Bronze Age mercenaries emerged in Europe in the 13th century BC. These men were part of a new highly mobile warrior class, equipped with innovative weapons and armour. They came from as far afield as Scandinavia, central Europe, Italy and the Balkans and they took service across Europe but especially in Mycenaean Greece, the eastern Mediterranean and even beyond.

Their emergence heralded a new militarism in Europe which immediately preceded the devastation of the twelfth century BC.

NB: the map at 3.20 is incorrect. It is not Sund, Sotra but Sund, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag

In Bronze Age northern Italy the Terramare culture thrived for centuries until one day in about 1200 BC, the population of 120,00 people disappeared.

This was the same era as the Late Bronze Age collapse, when the mysterious Sea Peoples invaded the Near East and destroyed so many ancient civilisations, leading to the first great dark age in history.

Were the people of the Terramare culture involved in some way?
Were they also the victims of climatic changes and foreign invasions that wiped them out?

Or were they perhaps one of the perpetrators? Could they in fact be one of the Sea Peoples?

This is the mystery of the Terramare culture.

Figures wearing horned helmets are depicted in Scandinavian rock art, on stelae in the Iberian Peninsula, and menhirs on Corsica. And horned helmets feature on statuettes from Zealand, Sardinia, and Cyprus, on wall decorations of the Sea People on reliefs in Egypt before the Bronze Age collapse, and on the Mycenaean Warrior Vase.

Clearly, horned helmets were widely distributed during this period of the Bronze Age.

But why? What do they mean? And are they connected in some way?

In this video we’re taking an epic voyage through the European Bronze Age in the 12th century BC from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula and across the Mediterranean to the east in search of the horned helmets of traders, warriors, kings, and gods.

Pirates of the Bronze Age Mediterranean raided ships and settlements throughout the era but especially during the period of the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

In fact, the mysterious Sea Peoples who invaded and raided the civilizations of the Near East were themselves pirates based on the islands of the eastern Mediterranean.

These pirates also raided the tombs of more ancient peoples around the Mediterranean and took the wealth within back to their bases in the Aegean, the Adriatic and even further afield.