New book:

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2014, revised: 2021) - Eric H. Cline

The cover art comes from a section of painting "Fire of Troy", by Keuninck (Coninck), Kerstiaen de

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.:_The_Year_Civilization_Collapsed

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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Wikipedia

@jmcrookston

Yes.

It's like living in a SciFi story where society is going bad.

Or a revisting of the #LateBronzeAgeCollapse.

"Dr. Norrie provides a summary of the fifteen currently accepted causes for the end of the Bronze Age in the Near East and then goes on to discuss the sixteenth reason—infectious disease epidemics"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123324/

How Disease Affected the End of the Bronze Age

Dr. Norrie provides a summary of the fifteen currently accepted causes for the end of the Bronze Age in the Near East and then goes on to discuss the sixteenth reason—infectious disease epidemics. These are the real reason that the end of the ...

PubMed Central (PMC)