Around 1200 BC, major Mediterranean civilizations began to collapse; scientists have now reconstructed the climate conditions surrounding the crisis
Representative image (AI generated) Around 1200 BC, several of the most powerful civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean, including the Mycenaean Kingdom, the Hittite Empire, the Canaanite city-states, and parts of the New Kingdom of Egypt, began to experience a period of rapid decline. Historians have long debated whether war, invasions, earthquakes, civil unrest or climate … Read more