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ALEX HALL is intrigued by the lessons drawn by an eminent scholar of the Bronze Age collapse of civilisation
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After 1177 BC The Survival of Civilizations
Eric H Cline
Princeton, £28

 

IN 1177 BC civilisation as we know it crumbled. In what is known as the Late Bronze Age collapse, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Cypriots all suffered disaster and lay in ruins. 

Trade stopped, and written records disappear. A series of catastrophes ensued which included the destruction of cities, mass migration and climate change. Ultimately the Minoans and the Hittites vanished. 

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