Climate change, invasions, and economic decline contributed to the collapse of Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...

The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, historian and author William Dalrymple draws striking parallels between past empires and today's global turbulence. Citing historical collapses from the Bronze Age ...