World War Zero brought down mystery civilisation of ‘sea people’

[rug]

DAILY NEWS 12 May 2016
By Colin Barras

The Trojan War was a grander event than even Homer would have us believe. The famous conflict may have been one of the final acts in what one archaeologist has controversially dubbed “World War Zero” – an event he claims brought the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age world crashing down 3200 years ago.

And the catalyst for the war? A mysterious and arguably powerful civilisation almost entirely overlooked by archaeologists: the Luwians.

By the second millennium BC, civilisation had taken hold throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian New Kingdom coexisted with the Hittites of central Anatolia and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, among others.

In little more than a single generation, they had all collapsed. Was the culprit climate change? Some sort of earthquake storm? Social unrest? Archaeologists can’t seem to agree.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087924-world-war-zero-brought-down-mystery-civilisation-of-sea-people/

[scscholar]

1. History classes in the US, ignore Turkey...

so this ignoration is not unexpected.

[WhiteTara]

2. That's really fascinating. Thanks

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. Here is real CIA satellite intelligence idiots!

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea-2016.html

[Jeffersons Ghost]

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[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. "and uh" historians believe that "the Trojan War is nothing more than myth

[MisterP]

4. that in fact was when the Greeks STARTED with Troy and then rampaged down

past Canaan, and were joined by the Berbers, Bedouin, Nubians, Sardinians, and everyone else on that quarter of the planet to attack Egypt

and since it was Egypt they were attacking, they lost decisively ...