[SunkenCiv]

The End of the Bronze Age

[Jonty30]

I saw a video that said the downfall of almost all civilizations is the savagery that is found in the Arabs or Turks.

[BenLurkin]

The Egyptian New Kingdom coexisted with...

"Coexisted"? More like were unable to defeat.

[sparklite2]

What would we do without the ‘climate change’ bugaboo?
Serious archaeologists positing a climate change that, in the space of a generation, takes down a civilization? I don’t think so.

[smalltownslick]

“The textual evidence available is mainly from post-Bronze age and it paints a slightly confusing picture, which could be seen as both supporting and undermining Zangger’s theory, says Ilya Yakubovich, a historical linguist at the Philipp University of Marburg, Germany.”

So maybe they did and maybe they didn’t

[mjp]

On returning to Greece, however, and in the sudden absence of any other threat, Zangger believes the Mycenaeans squabbled and fell into civil war – events hinted at in Homer’s Odyssey. Their civilisation was the last in the area to collapse.

what about the Dorians?

[ZULU]

Only the Egyptians survived - in a weakened state.

[samtheman]

Interesting theory

[Hootowl]

Immanuel Velikovsky wrote a book appropriately titled “Peoples of the Sea” in which he discussed the effect these marauders had on ancient civilizations.

[ameribbean expat]

http://longnow.org/seminars/02016/jan/11/1177-bc-when-civilization-collapsed/

[MUDDOG]

The Etruscans were Luwians.

[Redcitizen]

[PLMerite]

Every time I see this headline I think they’re talking about a Mitsubishi airplane...