The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.
by:
Robert Drews (author)
The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and...
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The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691048116 (0691048118)
ASIN: 0691048118
Publish date: 1993-07-26
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
The mortuary temple of Ramesses III on whose northern wall is a huge mural depicting the victory of Ramses III and the Egyptians over the "Sea People" around 1190 (or 1179, depending upon the expert) BCE. A little after 1200 BCE most of the thriving cities around the eastern Mediterranean were b...
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