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It was not, moreover, a sudden catastrophe, but the effects of a slow development whose consequences had begun to be felt as early as the end of the preceding period, through the penetration of groundwater into the burial chambers of the Late Bronze several of which must formerly have been evacuated.
The gradual silting of the Pediaios delta must have contributed to complicating the situation, but it cannot explain the surface alluvium due to surface, due to exceptional rains.
We are thus led to link these phenomena at Enkomi to the deterioration of the general climate observed in protohistoric Europe precisely in the 13th century, and which profoundly influenced the occupation of the land at the end of the Bronze Age and at the beginning of the Hallstatt period. More severe on the Asian continent, the effects of this disturbance, which we clearly observe at Enkomi, were felt in a lesser degree, as far as the Mediterranean region, toward which the migrations of many peoples in search of new lands were then directed.
On this subject, our finds and observations at Enkomi confirm the change that [illegible] the invasions of the Sea Peoples at the end of the 13th century, and which was recorded by the chronicles Egyptian of the time of Ramesses III. [illegible] It was then no longer a question of pirate raids or hit-and-run operations by nomadic peoples carried out with force and daring as in the 13th and 13th century.
This state of the migrations to expose the return of devastating peoples deprived as proof of the integrity [illegible] Hadjiestro of their lands and who found themselves on the way [illegible] toward the south, to fill their stomachs.
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