A toxic brew of calamities that included drought, earthquakes, famine, disease and invasion undermined civilizations across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East about 3,200 years ago. But that Late ...

The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...

Eric Cline explores the environmental and social events that caused the Bronze Age to end. Eric Cline, Professor of Classics and Anthropology at George Washington University, discusses the factors ...

Brian Cranston’s recitation of “Ozymandias” in last year’s memorable video clip for the final season of Breaking Bad may have elided some of the finer points of Shelley's poem. But it did the job it ...