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For example, drought was long the favored explanation of earlier scholars for the movement of the Sea Peoples out of the regions of the Western Mediterranean and into the lands to the east. They postulated that a drought in northern Europe had pressured the population to migrate down into the Mediterranean region, where they displaced the inhabitan

by a lost civilization who disappeared

It was probably just as well that the Hittites and Egyptians declared peace and ceased to fight each other, for they likely needed to turn their attention to two other events that may have taken place in about 1250 BC. Although both events may be legendary, and although it has yet to be proven that either actually took place, both still resonate in

“Perhaps the most important conclusion to be drawn about the ‘Dark Age’ … is that it was nothing of the sort. Gradually being illuminated by archaeological discovery and research, [this period] emerges rather as the catalyst of a new age—one that would build upon the ruins of Canaanite civilization and would bequeath to the modern Western world a c

The early history of Israel also coincides with a major power shift from Egypt to Mesopotamia. By the end of the twelfth century, Egypt ceased controlling sections of Asia, though in the following centuries it would…

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Battle of Ayn Jalut

Moreover, because there are signs of restoration activities in the decades between the earthquake and the final demise of the city, it is now thought that the quake only damaged the city and did not completely destroy it.6 It is, admittedly, frequently difficult to distinguish between a city destroyed by an earthquake and a city destroyed by humans

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