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Ethnic group A Peleset and Sherden prisoner being led by an Egyptian soldier under Ramesses III , Medinet Habu temple The Peleset ( Egyptian : pwrꜣsꜣtj ) or Pulasati were one of the several ethnic groups the Sea Peoples were said to be composed of, appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records in ancient Egyptian from the Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BC.
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Ancient Mediterranean peoples A Peleset and a Sherden prisoner being led by an Egyptian soldier under Ramesses III , Medinet Habu temple The Peleset ( Ancient Egyptian : pwrꜣsꜣtj ) or Pulasati are a people appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records in ancient Egyptian from the Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BCE.They are hypothesised to have been one of the several ethnic groups of which the invading Sea Peoples were said to be composed.Today, historians generally identify the Peleset with the Philistines .
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one of the several ethnic groups the sea peoples were said to be composed of
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people appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records in ancient egyptian from the eastern medite
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