Monday Metal

Archaeology Edition

Sometime around 1200 BC...

[Not BCE? -Ed]

We hate BCE and used to tell our students we would deduct points if they used it....

Anyway sometime around 1200 BC a mysterious 'Sea People' swept through the eastern Med bringing about the collapse of Minoan Civilization and forcing Egypt to fight for its survival.

The origins of the Sea People has always been something of a mystery, until now:

According to a report in Live Science, Fred Woudhuizen, a Dutch scholar of the ancient language known as Luwian, has translated a 3,200-year-old inscription discovered in the late nineteenth century on a 95-foot stretch of stone at an archaeological site in Beyköy, a town located near Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

Mystery solved.

Interestingly this is also about the time when the Biblical Exodus happened. We wonder if the Sea Peoples weakened Egypt enough to allow the Hebrews to flee. An act of god, perhaps. Never mess with god's chosen.

[We thought you worshiped Kek now.-Ed]

To celebrate, we offer up the best Black Sabbath song of the Ronnie James Dio era, Children of the Sea:

 Solid riff and love that bass. Rock on.

In the misty morning, on the edge of time
We've lost the rising sun, a final sign
As the misty morning rolls away to die
Reaching for the stars, we blind the sky
We sailed across the air before we learned to fly
We thought that it could never end
We'd glide above the ground before we learned to run, run
Now it seems our world has come undone
Oh they say that it's over
And it just had to be
Ooh they say that it's over
We're lost children of the sea, oh
We made the mountains shake with laughter as we played
Hiding in our corner of the world
Then we did the demon dance and rushed to nevermore
Threw away the key and locked the door
Oh they say that it's over, yeah
And it just had to be
Yes they say that it's over
We're lost children of the sea
In the misty morning, on the edge of time
We've lost the rising sun, a final sign
As the misty morning rolls away to die
Reaching for the stars, we blind the sky
Oh they say that it's over, yeah
And it just had to be
Oh they say that it's over
Poor lost children of the sea, yeah
LOOK OUT! The sky is falling down!
LOOK OUT! The world is spinning round and round and round!
LOOK OUT! The sun is going black, black
LOOK OUT! It's never never never coming back, LOOK OUT!