Cyprus announced that excavations at the site of Pyla-Kokkinokremos made significant strides in understanding the Bronze age ...

AMMAN — The Late Bronze Age collapse brought a dramatic societal change in the Southern Europe, North and South Levant. It was a period of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC ...

In After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline takes us on a captivating journey through the centuries that followed the collapse of the Late Bronze Age—a period often misunderstood as an ancient ‘Dark Age’.

A new study of 3,200-year-old trees in Turkey suggests that the mysterious collapse of several civilizations in the Late Bronze Age, from around 1200 to 1150 B.C., coincided with a severe three ...

It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early 1100s B.C. The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline.

In his 2014 book about the late Bronze Age collapse, American archaeologist Eric Cline highlights the year 1177 BCE as a ...

The Bronze Age and its collapse The Bronze Age […] Black-flagged ships sailed up the Nile, bringing mysterious seafarers who wrought havoc wherever they went.

But that Late Bronze Age collapse was not a one-size-hits-all event. Archaeologist Eric H. Cline sees it as a complicated tragedy and transition, with only some societies vanishing.

The Late Bronze Age collapse between 1200 and 1100 BC saw a number of civilisations crumble, including the Mycenaeans in Greece and the Hittites in Anatolia. Others, including Egypt’s New ...

Ten years ago, archaeologist Eric Cline’s book 1177 B.C.:The Year Civilization Collapsed became a surprise critical and commercial hit and a nominee for the Pulitzer Prize.* It’s since been ...