Imagine an entire era of thriving civilizations, trade, and culture - wiped out in just 50 years. The Bronze Age Collapse remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in history. What caused ...

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The Late Bronze Age collapse between 1200 and 1100 BC saw a number of civilisations crumble, including the Mycenaeans in Greece and the Hittites in Anatolia. Others, including Egypt’s New ...

The collapse of societies has fascinated historians, archeologists and anthropologists from Polybius in ancient times to Edward Gibbon in the 18th century and a growing interdisciplinary field of ...

It has been kept in the museum's collections since 1924. A broken ceramic vessel characteristic of early Bronze Age pottery was also found with the slab, according to the French Prehistoric Society.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s one of history’s most enduring mysteries. More than 3,200 ...

Scientists found it was a gigantic map, likely used by a Bronze Age prince to rule the area. They now want to use this "treasure map" to uncover lost archaeological sites.

It peaked in the 1500s B.C. and ended gradually, then suddenly, in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early 1100s B.C. The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline.

But that Late Bronze Age collapse was not a one-size-hits-all event. Archaeologist Eric H. Cline sees it as a complicated tragedy and transition, with only some societies vanishing.