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It was moreover not a sudden catastrophe, but the effects of a slow development, the consequences of which began to be felt as early as the end of the preceding period, through the pénétration of groundwater into the burial chambers of the Final Bronze, several of which must formerly have been evacuated.
The gradual silting of the Pediaeos delta must have contributed to complicating the situation, but it cannot explain the surface alluvia due to surface deposits caused by excessive rains.
We are thus led to relate these events at Enkomi to the deterioration of the general climate observed in protohistoric Europe precisely in the 12th century, which deeply influenced the occupation of the land at the end of the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Hallstatt period.
More serious on the Eurasian continent, the effects of this disturbance, which we now observe at Enkomi, were felt in a lesser degree, even in the Mediterranean region, towards which the migrations of many peoples in search of new lands were then heading. che de terres nouvelles.
In this connection, our finds and observations at Enkomi confirm the change that the invasions of the Sea Peoples had undergone from the 12th century onward, and which was faithfully recorded by the chroniclers Egyptian of the time of Ramesses III, [handwritten: and by the sculptors of Medinet Habu] and by the sculptors of Medinet Habou
It was no longer then a matter of pirate raids or sudden strikes by warrior peoples overflowing with strength and daring, as in the 14th and 13th centuries.
These were migrations without hope of return by desperate peoples deprived [handwritten: as the Medinet Habu inscription specifies,] of their lands, and who forced a path penetrating towards the south, to fill their stomachs.
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