1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed | Bronze Age Collapse Documentary

Around 1200 BC, almost every great power of the ancient world fell within a single lifetime: the Hittite empire, Ugarit, the Mycenaean palaces of Greece. For a century the story had a villain, the Sea Peoples. The tree rings, the last letters of Ugarit and the bones of Ashkelon tell a darker story. This documentary follows the Bronze Age collapse kingdom by kingdom, from the temple walls of Medinet Habu to the empty capital of Hattusa. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:07 The world before the fall 2:56 The legend on the temple wall 4:54 Ugarit's last letters 6:48 The famine 7:57 The shaking earth 8:31 Cyprus, the island that held 9:43 Hattusa abandoned 11:08 How we date a ruin 12:09 The palaces of Greece 13:32 Egypt the victor that faltered 14:39 Was there really a collapse? 16:15 What the bones of Ashkelon say 17:34 A world of iron 18:40 The end of an age NEXT EPISODE: the city that became a legend inside this collapse. Subscribe so you don't miss it. MAIN SOURCES Eric H. Cline, 1177 B.C. (Princeton, rev. ed. 2021) · Manning et al., Nature 614 (2023) · Ugaritica V (1968) · Knapp & Manning, AJA 120 (2016) · Feldman et al., Science Advances 5 (2019) · Epigraphic Survey, Medinet Habu I (1930). Images: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA / public domain); every image is credited by author and licence in the comments below. #BronzeAgeCollapse #AncientHistory #Documentary