In the late 12th century BC, the great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed so completely that writing vanished from Greece for centuries, and a new dark age began. This chapter explores how oral ...
Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...
The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...