However, by 1200 BCE, these sites were abandoned en masse, coinciding with the broader Late Bronze Age collapse seen across Europe and the Mediterranean. The megaforts were not just centers of ...

In his 2014 book, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline described this so-called “Late Bronze Age Collapse,” which led to a “Dark Age” that lasted for decades in some places, and ...

in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early 1100s B.C. The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline. The Hittite empire fell, and the Assyrian and Babylonian empires faltered.