https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration, and the destruction of cities. ... Many other sites offer less conclusive causes; for example it is unclear what happened at Athens, although it is clear that the settlement saw a significant

https://www.history.com/news/bronze-age-collapse-causes
What happened? Updated: June 29, 2023 | Original: July 28, 2021. More than 3,200 years ago, the Mediterranean and Near East were home to a flourishing and interconnected Bronze Age civilization

https://www.worldhistory.org/Bronze_Age_Collapse/
The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. The precise cause of the Bronze Age Collapse has been debated by scholars for over a century as well as the date it probably began and when it ended but no consensus has been reached.

https://etc.worldhistory.org/interviews/what-caused-the-bronze-age-collapse/
JW: 1177 BC is the date in which Ramses III of Egypt (r. 1186-1155 BC) defeated the Sea Peoples for a second time at the Battle of the Delta. (The Battle of Djahy, which pitted the Egyptians against the Sea Peoples occurred a few years earlier.) You characterize this as a "pyrrhic victory," which symbolically ends the Bronze Age networks of

https://www.thecollector.com/bronze-age-collapse/
Mycenaeans Statuettes, circa 1400-1300 BCE, from Athens, Via the British Museum. The late Bronze Age saw a wave of highly developed civilizations decline and collapse quite suddenly, between around 1200 - 1150 BCE. Several early writing systems vanished, in what is sometimes referred to as the world's first dark age, and many regions would take centuries to recover.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/bronze-age-collapse-0017612
The Late Bronze Age collapse is a shocking event when cultures across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East mysteriously fell between 1200-1150 BC. ... we can only surmise that something terrible happened, but we cannot know what exactly happened with the lack of literary sources. Luckily, there was one enigmatic plea written by then King of

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033270433/the-aftermath-of-collapse-bronze-age-edition-2021
The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. ... The Aftermath of Collapse: Bronze Age Edition

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/late-bronze-age-hittite-collapse-archaeology-dendrochronology
February 08, 2023. • 7 min read. A new study of 3,200-year-old trees in Turkey suggests that the mysterious collapse of several civilizations in the Late Bronze Age, from around 1200 to 1150 B.C

https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-8241
The Problem of the Mycenaean Collapse. The collapse in Greece and the Aegean at the end of the Late Bronze Age c. 1200 bce has long been a mystery—in terms of what exactly happened, who was involved, their actions and motivations, and what the structural factors were. Even the scope of collapse is difficult to gauge; some identify a global system collapse in the eastern Mediterranean

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Bronze_Age_Collapse/
The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. The precise cause of the Bronze Age Collapse has been debated by scholars for over a century as well as the date it probably began and when it ended but

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1446/interview-the-mysterious-bronze-age-collapse-with/
The decline of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East has puzzled historians and archaeologists for centuries. While many have ascribed the collapse of several civilizations to the enigmatic Sea Peoples, Professor Eric H. Cline, former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at George Washington University, presents a more

https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/bronze-age
Bronze Age Collapse . The Bronze Age ended abruptly around 1200 B.C. in the Middle East, North Africa and Mediterranean Europe. Historians don't know for sure what caused the Bronze Age collapse

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bronze-Age
Bronze Age, third phase in the development of material culture among the ancient peoples of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, following the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods (Old Stone Age and New Stone Age, respectively). The term also denotes the first period in which metal was used. The date at which the age began varied with regions; in Greece and China, for instance, the Bronze Age began

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/what-caused-the-bronze-age-collapse/
The Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization," Eric H. Cline of the George Washington University investigates what caused the Bronze Age collapse. This was not just the collapse of one kingdom, but the collapse of a vast network of interconnected kingdoms—the collapse of Bronze Age civilization.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/17/1038306836/bonus-throughline-what-happened-after-civilization-collapsed
The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. Today, scholars have pieced together a story where

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/11/955735429/what-happened-after-civilization-collapsed
The end of the Bronze Age was a moment when an entire network of ancient civilizations collapsed, leaving behind only clues to what happened. Today, scholars have pieced together a story where

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/humans-shaped-ancient-history-across-3-ages-the-stone-bronze-and-iron-age
Immediately following the collapse of the Late Bronze Age, Greece was plunged into the Dark Ages, as connections among cities broke down and written records virtually disappeared. However, Greece would rebound around 800 B.C.E., and then around 500 to 300 B.C.E., it flourished with Athens as a renowned center of learning and democracy.

https://biblicalhistoricalcontext.com/israelite-origins/israelite-origins-the-late-bronze-age-collapse/
The Song of Deborah. At around 1200 BCE, during what is now seen as the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age, the eastern Mediterranean world suffered mass societal collapse. In his excellent 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization CollapsedEric Cline sums up just how serious the chaos was:

https://www.worldhistory.org/video/1751/the-bronze-age-collapse-in-our-time---bbc/
Video. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations around 1200 BC in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes in Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2015-04-13/ty-article/.premium/1177-bce-the-year-civilization-was-destroyed/0000017f-e124-d568-ad7f-f36f09770000
The mystery of the collapse of Late Bronze Age civilization bedevils archaeologists. One, Eric Cline, is positive: The devastation wasn't due to a single cataclysm, but to a harmony of events - and it could happen again. ... "It seems that this is what happened between about 1225 BCE and 1175 BCE, and I think that the Late Bronze Age

https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/1177-b-c-the-collapse-of-bronze-age-civilization/
1177 B.C. was a pivotal moment in the history of civilization—a turning point for the ancient world. By that time, the Bronze Age in the Aegean, Egypt, and Near East had lasted nearly 2,000 years, from approximately 3000 B.C. to just after 1200 B.C. When the end came, as it did after centuries of cultural and technological evolution, most of

https://www.history.com/news/decline-ancient-egypt-causes
In the 12th century B.C., the entire Mediterranean region went through a cataclysmic event known as the "Bronze Age Collapse."For the kingdoms that fell to the Sea Peoples—or to other

https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/2015/01/cli398005
All other things aside, recent discoveries allow us to investigate again the specific reason why the Israelites and Philistines were able to establish a foothold in the land of Canaan, namely the power vacuum that was created by the collapse of the Late Bronze Age kingdoms and empires in the ancient Near East in the decades after 1200 BC.

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/janeh-2022-0011/html
Cohen, Susan L. 2021. "Diet, Drink and Death: The Transition from the Intermediate Bronze Age to the Middle Bronze Age in the Southern Levant." In Transitions, Urbanism, and Collapse in the Bronze Age: Essays in Honor of Suzanne Richard, edited by Jesse C. LongJr., and William G. Dever, 15-25. Sheffield: Equinox.

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2024-06-12/ty-article-magazine/archaeology-reveals-how-a-town-in-syria-survived-the-bronze-age-collapse-of-civilizations/00000190-0634-da02-a1dc-fe7f623d0000
The researchers looked at some of these factors over a huge swath of time at Tel Tweini, from the Early Bronze Age, more than 4,500 years ago, through the Middle and Late Bronze Age, across the crisis that led to the dawn of the Iron Age and until the settlement's final abandonment in 500 B.C.E.