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Why the Bronze Age Really Collapsed

Original: Why the Bronze Age Collapsed

A new essay argues the long-standing explanations for the Late Bronze Age collapse, around 1200 BC, deserve a rethink. The piece challenges popular accounts that blame the Sea Peoples, earthquakes or drought alone, and instead examines how interconnected trade networks and system-wide vulnerabilities may have combined to bring down multiple civilisations at once, including Egypt's neighbours, the Hittites and Mycenaean Greece.

Why now: Readers are drawn to fresh historical reinterpretations of one of antiquity's biggest unsolved mysteries.

Bronze AgeSea PeoplesHittitesMycenaean GreeceWorks in Progress

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