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It was not a sudden catastrophe, but the effects of a long development, the beginnings of which had begun to be felt as early as the end of the preceding period, by the potteryrion of the sous-entendus in the last funerary deposits of Enkomi final, of which several were evacuated.
The gradual invasion of the Nile delta must have contributed to aggravating the situation, but it cannot explain the alliances of southfaune in at isolated points.
We are thus led to connect our evidence from Enkomi to the de-
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struction of the eastern Mediterranean in general, observed in protohistoric Europe or prehistoric 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. These serious events on the eastern continent, the effects of this disturbance, which we now know at Enkomi, were felt to a lesser degree as far as the Mediterranean region, towards the pastwhen migrations of new peoples were then moving in search of new lands.
On this point, our finds and observations at Ugarit confirm the change that the invasions of the Sea Peoples had undergone from the Nil siècle onwards, and which was skilfully noted by the chroniclers Egyptian of the time of Ramesses III, and by the sculptors of Medinet Habu. It was no longer a matter then of raids by pirates or of hit-and-run attacks by warrior peoples coming from Syria and Anatolia as in the 13th and Nil or Mille siècle.
These were migrations without hope of return by dispersed peoples [handwritten: signature mark] leaving, as the interpretation of certain hypotheses, their lands. and who weakened an ancient one towards the south, to regroup at the estuary.
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