NEW DATA ABOUT THE SEA PEOPLES' MIGRATIONS
The article considers data about two Early Iron Age states in Syria and Cilicia, which were established in early 12th century B.C. by the migrant Sea Peoples. The author considers them in the context of all migrations of the Sea Peoples in late 13th - early 12th centuries B.C. and uses Ramses III. inscriptions, archaeological data from Eastern Mediterranean and the Greek epic tradition about the journey of Amphilochus and Mopsus to Cilicia, Syria and Phoenicia. On the basis of the complex analysis of the sources the author states that Greek epic tradition captured two waves of the Sea Peoples migrations. One of them took place in Southern Greece and was due to the collapse of the Mycenaean world. The other one came from the north-west of Anatolia, where according to Ramses III inscriptions a great war had taken place. The emergence of the Early Iron Age states in Syria and Cilicia, established by different ethnic groups of the Sea Peoples, confirms once again the fact that there was a long-lasting and heterogeneous process of the Sea Peoples migrations.