1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video] • Hacker News Board

I inherited a fascination with this time period from my father who acquired it from an Oxbridge educated colleague in the RAF during WW2 - who took copies of Homer on their adventures.

My fascination was fed by the excellent 1980s BBC series "In Search of the Trojan War" with Michael Wood, which covers some of the same topics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbUQKyie_w&list=PLH2l6uzC4U... [NB Warning of nipples].

Re: 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

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Post by random_upvoter » Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 10:38 AM UTC

Cline also did a wonderful series of audio lectures on the archaeology of Troy. (The Modern Scholar: Archaeology and the Iliad: The Trojan War in Homer and History)

Re: 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

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Post by internaut » Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 10:42 AM UTC

etqwzutewzu wrote: post #3

tl;dw please?

Beware of the Sea People.

For more real horror stories read "The Collapse of Complex Civilizations" The Ik is the shortest example of what can only be called Lovecraftian History.

What makes this material scary is that it might not be the past.

Re: 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

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Post by kowdermeister » Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 10:47 AM UTC

etqwzutewzu wrote: post #3

tl;dw please?

- 8 civilizations collapsed

- Cause unknown

- Don't trust sea people :)

Re: 1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video]

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Post by kowdermeister » Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 10:55 AM UTC

kowdermeister wrote: post #9

etqwzutewzu wrote: post #3

tl;dw please?

- 8 civilizations collapsed - Cause unknown - Don't trust sea people :)

+ 1: don't build major cities on fault lines.