April, 14, 2025 archives
An earlier rhyme
1177 B. C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline is about the collapse of the empires in the eastern Mediterranean in the early 12th century B.C. There seem to have been several factors, but the evidence that a mega-drought that impacted the area in that time may have been the most significant seems to me to be growing. What is fascinating is how unknown this history is, and the ways it has to be pieced together from various archeological digs, studies of climate change, and trying to fit it together with the stories that are attributed to these times (like the exodus of the Old Testament). What are future historians and archeologists going to have to do to piece together how our current empires fall?