Found this yesterday. Found it quite interesting. Identifies the sea peoples, and reveals the First Dark age which occurred during the Bronze age...

1177BC The Year Civilization Collapsed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4

Quote from: Bren;1128430Probably a bit of both. Like Caesar.

Thanks for the explanation. I wonder if we know enough about the Bronze Age to figure out if that ship was just some average merchant vessel rather than the Bronze Age equivalent of a Spanish Treasure ship.

I think we have a pretty good grasp in the abstract for how trade was being conducted during the Bronze age, at least in the Eastern Med/Aegean to say quite a bit.  I don't think there was really much of an equivalency to Spanish Treasure Ships, per se (though again, my take on the Myceneans indicates at least a possibility).  I'm no expert on the subject, but recall that this is prior to the invention of coinage, and a lot of trade was conducted at the 'royal' level through exchanges of gifts, though for example we have documented existance of dedicated merchants (tax exempt even!) through Ugaritic documents.

Insofar as this particular wreck, I believe the understanding is that the ship was making a circuit of ports, trading portions of cargo for more cargo, filling a sort of shopping list for whomever it sailed for (due to a certain uniformity of seafaring technology of the age and a lack of any documentation, as far as I know they haven't figured out where 'home' was for this particular ship.)  I can speculate all day long if the entire load of bronze was going to a single nation, or if it was parcelled out in ingots as a trade good for cypress from Lebanon, or olive oil and wine from Greece or what have you, but I couldn't hope to give a definitive answer, and I doubt the experts are in much better shape in that regards.

Bronze weapons from Iran (Elam) around 2000BC-1000BC