The Bronze Age: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Advanced Civilizations

When scholars look at the passage of history, certain epochs and transitions to new periods tend to stand out. The transition from the early modern to the Industrial Age in the late 18th century and the collapse of the Roman Empire are two of the more well known, but the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age during the late 13th and early 12th centuries B.C. arguably changed the structure and course of world history more fundamentally than any period before or since. During this period...