Bronze Age World

What is the evidence?

The inscription and names are secure; its casualty figures, rhetoric and group identities require criticism.

Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: reviewed for v0.1. This is separate from specialist review.

Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.

Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.

Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.

Preferred assertion

Precision: regnal year

high

Egyptian chronology and Year 5 inscription

informs · provides primary evidence
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC — Colleen Manassa (2003)
Locator: Great Karnak Inscription, Year 5
informs · proposes interpretation
Mercenaries or Refugees? The Evidence from the Inscriptions of Merenptah on the ‘Sea Peoples’ — Konstantinos Kopanias (2017)
Locator: entire article

Locations: Egypt

informs · provides primary evidence
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC — Colleen Manassa (2003)
Source relationship recorded for Merneptah’s Year 5 Conflict with a Libyan-Led Coalition.

Locator: Great Karnak Inscription, Year 5
informs · proposes interpretation
Mercenaries or Refugees? The Evidence from the Inscriptions of Merenptah on the ‘Sea Peoples’ — Konstantinos Kopanias (2017)
Source relationship recorded for Merneptah’s Year 5 Conflict with a Libyan-Led Coalition.

Locator: entire article