When the empire of Atlantis was consumed by the sea, risen during the end of the Ice Age for about a century beginning circa 1500 b. c., the Atlanteans displaced tried to make-do moving inland, but because the rainfall (and snowfall in the mountains) dissipated at that time, resources became even more scarce, so many of them sailed eastward looking for opportunity, known in ancient history as the Sea Peoples who began circa 1200 b. c. to attack Egypt and the peoples of the Levant.
