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"This paper offers a reassessment of the horizon of destructions and decline in number of settled communities at the end of the third millennium BC in west and central Anatolia. This phenomenon, despite being well-known in the archaeological literature, has been so far not analysed in detail.
Sep 19, 2023 · Before the great empires of Egypt, Persia and Greece ruled the world, civilizations carved from bronze dominated the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Then, at the turn of the 2nd millennium BC, a series of natural disasters, invasions and droughts wiped them from the face of the earth. This cataclysm is known as the Bronze Age Collapse.
Jan 1, 2007 · Towards the end of the second millennium BC the Assyrian sphere of influence reached in the west to the river Bal ī ~ and in the south-west a nd south to the Euphrates. 2
Moreover, the use of cuneiform for a non-Sumerian language can be demonstrated with certainty from the 27th century bce. History of Mesopotamia - Ancient Cities, Sumerians, Akkadians: Attempts have been made by philologists to reach conclusions about the origin of the flowering of civilization in southern Mesopotamia by the analysis of Sumerian ...
the second half of the XII — the first half of the XI century BC. e. — there is a gradual penetration into new lands, outposts are formed, contacts with local people are unstable; IX-VII centuries BC — a more serious stage of colonization. Building cities and forming strong connections with local residents. The first stage of colonization
May 31, 2012 · This article explores the impact and role of iron in society at the end of the 2nd millennium BC in the Eastern Mediterranean, an event often referred to as the ‘coming of the age of iron ...
Oct 18, 2016 · Middle Egypt provides a unique insight into the organization of power, politics, economy, and culture at the turn of the third millennium BC. The apparently easy integration of this region into the reunified monarchy of king Mentuhotep II (2055–2004 BC) was possible because the interests and the local lineages of potentates were preserved. Trade and access and/or control of international ...
