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as in the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. Here it is indisputably of weapons originating in northern and central Europe, which reached, through warlike invasions and the trade in arms, the countries and islands of the Sea Aegean, by way of Italy and the Balkans. The finds from Enkomi-Alasia prove now that weapons of this type were manufactured on the island; the copies are so well made that they cannot be distinguished from their European prototypes of the Bronze Age. It is therefore permissible to conclude that the armourers of Cyprus who forged them were members of those same Sea Peoples who invaded [handwritten: [bracket mark]]the island at that time.
The knives and swords of European type removed from the occupation levels of Enkomi- Alasia, left by the Sea Peoples, could be dated precisely, thanks to their archaeological context and to Egyptian and Ugaritic epigraphy, in the time of the reign of Ramesses III and of his contemporary, the king of Ugarit Hammourapi. These dateings allow the absolute chronology, still being worked out, of the similar finds from northern, central and southern Europe to be refined. Cypriot archaeology makes here a new and important contribution to the research in the field of European Prehistory.
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