Friday October 9, 2015
Eric H. Cline
Professor, Classics and Anthropology
Director, Capitol Archaeological Institute
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The George Washington University
For more than three hundred years during the Late Bronze Age, from about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex international world in which Egyptians, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Cypriots, and Canaanites all interacted, creating a cosmopolitan and globalized world-system such as has only rarely been seen in human history. Then it all collapsed.