Iron, migration and crisis : western Eurasia 1200 BCE
An event called 'the Late Bronze Age Collapse' saw societies falling like dominoes from the Aegean Sea to the Indus Valley. Read the notes from this session
Enjoy this video on the Uluburun wreck, a discovery that sheds much light on trade of the time
You might also enjoy an article on the Philistines - latest analysis suggests these were one of the groups of migrants who relocated en masse, in theor case, from somewhere in the Aegean to present-day Gaza. Their language and customs differed greatly from the local Canaanites and they attracted a bad press in Biblical sources. I find their distinctive habit of cooking in 'chicken bricks' most intriguing, alongside the fact that they weren't so much cooking chicken, as....puppy....read more www.haaretz.com/1.4970867