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1177 B.C.

by Eric H. Cline

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2019
  • First published 2014

history ancient

Describes the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean around 1177 BC.   Cline argues that earthquakes, drought, famine and invaders combined to bring them down.