I believe S.L. was referring to the supposed dark age that followed the supposed collapse of the Bronze Age civ. Scientific dating has shown that it, too, is a modern myth — there was no single beginning or end to the use of bronze, and there wasn’t a Greek dark age.
http://www.varchive.org/dag/index.htm
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
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