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Dec 4, 2022 · The Late Bronze Age collapse is a shocking event when cultures across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East mysteriously fell between 1200-1150 BC. To the layman who is educated in the Euro-Centric tradition, history stops at the Greeks.
Sep 19, 2019 · Article. The decline of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East has puzzled historians and archaeologists for centuries. While many have ascribed the collapse of several civilizations to the enigmatic Sea Peoples, Professor Eric H. Cline, former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and ...
The Problem of the Mycenaean Collapse. The collapse in Greece and the Aegean at the end of the Late Bronze Age c. 1200 bce has long been a mystery—in terms of what exactly happened, who was involved, their actions and motivations, and what the structural factors were.
Even though the Hittites in Anatolia were the first great power to have iron at the time of the collapse, the general regional shift from bronze to iron occurred after the collapse of the Bronze Age c.1200 bce. 34 The Sea Peoples’ weapons for example were made of bronze, not iron. So iron confirmed the collapse and end of the Bronze Age but ...
Apr 13, 2015 · The Late Bronze Age collapse of societies throughout the Levant, the Near East and the Mediterranean some 3,200 years ago has been a mystery. Powerful, advanced civilizations disappeared, seemingly overnight. Now an archaeologist believes he has figured out what lay behind the cataclysm.
Aug 14, 2013 · The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean, Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and has remained one of the mysteries of the ancient world since the event’s retrieval began in the late 19th century AD/CE. Iconic Egyptian bas-reliefs and graphic hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts portray the proximate ...
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