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The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cultures have been studied extensively across the country. [1] In the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age (15-9 centuries BC) several powerful states emerged in the Armenian plateau. The culture is characterized by “cyclopic” castles built of massive stone blocks, which are wall surrounded settlements ...
Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins lie near modern Boğazkale, Turkey (originally Boğazköy) within the great loop of the Kızılırmak River (Hittite: Marashantiya; Greek: Halys).
A diversion of midwinter storms from the Atlantic to north of the Pyrenees and the Alps brought wetter conditions to Central Europe and drought to the Eastern Mediterranean near the time of the Late Bronze Age collapse. [34] During what may have been the driest era of the Late Bronze Age, tree cover of the Mediterranean forest dwindled.
Satellite images reveal an ancient mega network connecting over 100 Bronze Age sites. Discover the complex civilization beneath Central Europe.
I - Late Roman 100-400 AD; II-III - Iron Age 1100-700 BC Hittite New Kingdom + Neo-Assyrian; IV - Late Bronze II 1600-1100 BC Hittite Middle Kingdom; VB - Late Bronze I 1750-1600 BC Hittite Old Kingdom; VA - Middle Bronze 2000-1750 BC Assyrian Karum period; VID - Early Bronze Age III 2500-2000 BC Early-Dynastic III b
This is a list of Bronze Age polities. By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China, while Bronze Age tribal chiefdoms with less complex forms of administration were found throughout Bronze Age Europe and Central Asia, in the northern Indian subcontinent, and in parts of ...
The ruins ranged in age from about 2,300 years old to over 4,000 years old. The oldest ruins were stone towers and tombs from the early Bronze Age, a time sometimes referred to as the Umm an-Nar ...