The Dorian invasion theory hypothesizes that a large-scale migration or invasion was responsible for dramatic changes to ...

in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early 1100s B.C. The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline. The Hittite empire fell, and the Assyrian and Babylonian empires faltered.

Cline argues that several modern factors are pushing us closer to a collapse of civilization similar ... maturity, old age, and death. However, he emphasizes that this cycle does not necessarily ...

However, by 1200 BCE, these sites were abandoned en masse, coinciding with the broader Late Bronze Age collapse seen across Europe and the Mediterranean. The megaforts were not just centers of ...