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Aegean Eruption
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Abraham Rabinovich
Jerusalem Post
05-12-1995
It was the worst of times.
All around the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 13th century BCE, societies were collapsing. The palaces of Mycenae in the Aegean were covered with layers of destruction, the Hittite civilization in the area of today's Turkey crumbled, major Canaanite cities were destroyed, even mighty Egypt's fortunes plunged.
Anarchy on land and piracy at sea replaced the flourishing maritime trade that had marked the previous century around the Mediterranean. Among the peoples dislodged from the Aegean by the cataclysmic ...
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