What caused the Bronze Age Collapse?

The Late Bronze Age Collapse has puzzled scholars for centuries. Dr. Eric H. Cline shares some fresh perspectives from "1177 BC" in this interview with AHE. read more

Professor Eric H. Cline speaks to Ancient History Encyclopedia’s James Blake Wiener about his new title and the circumstances that lead to the collapse of the cosmopolitan world of the Late Bronze Age in this interview. read more

The Late Bronze Age collapse involved a dark-age transition period in the Near East, Asia Minor, Aegean region, North Africa, Caucasus, Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, a transition which historians believe was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive. read more

Just preceding the Late Bronze Age Collapse (and during), Syria turned into a battleground between some of the largest empires of the time — the Hittites, the Assyrians, the Mitanni, and the Egyptians. read more

Much of Bronze Age civilization did not collapse. Elam, Assyria, Babylonia survived.. The iron evolution and the (likely unrelated) evolution of cavalry, meant the Fertile Crescent was destined to be threatened by Central Asia for the next 3000 years. read more