So who were they really? Just how a group so influential in bringing

>>3336611
There is substantial evidence they were from the Aegean basin and among them were Italic mercenaries, the Sicels, who at the time inhabited both Calabria and Sicily, as proved by the material record: Italian weapons appearing in the Levant (Amurru) and Cyprus along with imported and locally made South Italian pottery from Calabria, Sicily and Apulia, Amurru and Cyprus were the places that were raided and taken over by the sea peoples according to the Egyptians, around 1200-11500 bc, in Cyprus, fortified settlements built in strategic positions are built at the same time of the sea peoples' invasions, we see huge amounts of Aegean pottery and minor quantities of Anatolian, South Italian and Sardinian pottery, all that can be dated to that exact period, these settlements were built and abandoned in the course of 50 years, exactly at the time of the sea peoples' invasions, they were multiethnic settlements, and were abandoned suddenly in the first half of the XIIth century bc, exactly when Egyptians defeated the sea peoples coming from the north (Cyprus, Amurru and Crete), we see that they covered trasures that were never uncovered again, pointing out that they never made it back after being swept aside by the Egyptians:

>[Beginning of the victory that his majesty achieved in the land of Libya] -i, Ekwesh, Teresh, Lukka, Sherden, Shekelesh, Northerners coming from all lands.
>... the third season, saying: 'The wretched, fallen chief of Libya, Meryey, son of Ded, has fallen upon the country of Tehenu with his bowmen – Sherden, Shekelesh, Ekwesh, Lukka, Teresh, Taking the best of every warrior and every man of war of his country. He has brought his wife and his children – leaders of the camp, and he has reached the western boundary in the fields of Perire'

These guys: Anatolians and South Italians together with Acheans (Ekwesh) allied with Libyan nomads to plunder Egypt