The Sea Peoples: Who Destroyed the Bronze Age? | Sleep History | Boring History for Deep Sleep

Around 1200 BCE, something catastrophic happened. In the space of a few decades, nearly every great civilization of the ancient world collapsed simultaneously. The Hittite Empire — gone. Mycenaean Greece — gone. Ugarit, one of the most sophisticated cities in the ancient world — burned to the ground and never rebuilt. Egypt survived, barely, after repelling a wave of invaders they called the Sea Peoples. But who were they? Where did they come from? And how did a group of migrants or raiders manage to end three thousand years of Bronze Age civilization almost overnight? Nobody knows. After more than a century of archaeology, the identity of the Sea Peoples remains one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries. This video takes you slowly through the full story — the world they destroyed, the records they left behind, the theories that have been proposed, and the silence where the answer should be. Lie back. Let the ancient world in. — The Midnight Drift 🎧 Best with headphones at low volume. 🕯️ For sleep, rest, and quiet evenings. 00:00 — Part 1: The World Before 08:39 — Part 2: The Collapse 15:40 — Part 3: The Evidence 23:38 — Part 4: The Silence After Subscribe for new sleep history every week. #sleephistory #boringhistory #sleepstory #historyforsleep #fallasleep #relaxinghistory #bedtimestoryforadults #deepsleep #sleepaid #calmnarration #seapeoples #bronzeagecollapse #ancienthistory #hittites #mycenae