Footnote 1 – 1177 B.C.—The Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization

For more on the Late Bronze Age powers, see Gernot Wilhelm, “When a Mittani Princess Joined Pharaoh’s Harem,” Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2001; Marian Feldman, “The Iconography of Power: Reading Late Bronze Age Symbols,” Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 2002; Barry Unsworth, “Imagining the Minoans,” Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2004; Hershel Shanks, “The Hittites: Between Tradition and History,” BAR, March/April 2016.