This precious stone set in the silver sea

Back when print magazines could send editors to the great sporting contests, I could look out from my hotel window at night to see the lights of ships standing off the port of Valencia, Spain, waiting to enter in daylight. Years later I would count 13 vessels waiting their turns off Marseille.

I naturally thought of the 'Peoples of the Sea' 40 centuries ago, moving along this same coast. Where might they have been bound? One likely