The craft is destructive: the barbarians did not come from outside, but were produced by civilization itself. The people whom the poets will turn into heroes simultaneously become the destroyers of their own ...

Christopher Nolan’s version of “The Odyssey” has taken moviegoers by storm. But does it pass the ultimate test: a classical studies professor’s expert eye?

Finally, someone (us) has made a candle commemorating everyone’s favorite late 13th century widespread societal collapse.

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has sparked a resurgence of interest in the Sea Peoples. But who were they and should they be blamed for the fall of the Bronze Age?

Bronze Age collapse game TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 entered Steam Early Access on August 18, 2026, developed by Wield Interactive and published by MicroProse, as a survival RTS where food management...

Eight empires stretched from Greece to Mesopotamia, trading tin and copper and olive oil and letters written in a language nobody spoke at home, and then within a single human lifetime they were gone,...