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Bronze Age Books
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 12,361 ratings — published 2014
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,877 ratings — published 2007
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 116,511 ratings — published -2000
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 882 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 502,206 ratings — published -800
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,172,700 ratings — published -700
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,169 ratings — published 2024
In Search of the Trojan War (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 853 ratings — published 1985
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 6,396 ratings — published 2010
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,572 ratings — published 2000
The Kingdom of the Hittites (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 181 ratings — published 1998
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 261 ratings — published 1993
Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,186 ratings — published 2010
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,921,744 ratings — published 2011
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 964 ratings — published 1963
Ancient Iraq (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 569 ratings — published 1964
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,729 ratings — published 1989
Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 147 ratings — published 2020
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 95 ratings — published 2008
The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 57 ratings — published 2010
The Mycenaeans (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 38 ratings — published 2005
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,330 ratings — published 2002
Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 73 ratings — published 1992
The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 10,259 ratings — published 1958
The Trojan War: A New History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,783 ratings — published 2006
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 698 ratings — published 2022
The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
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avg rating 4.25 — 51 ratings — published 2012
European Societies in the Bronze Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 2000
Jack Kirby's OMAC: One Man Army Corps (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 604 ratings — published 2007
Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 25 ratings — published 2003
The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 132 ratings — published 1958
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,710 ratings — published 2017
Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 18 ratings — published 2012
Writings from Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 383 ratings — published 2010
The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940-1640 B.C. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 428 ratings — published -1940
Hittite Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 76 ratings — published 1990
The Hittites (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 200 ratings — published 1952
Stories from Ancient Canaan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 318 ratings — published 1978
Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 149 ratings — published 1971
Black Ships (Numinous World, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,917 ratings — published 2008
Gilgamesh (Sumerians, #2)
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avg rating 4.34 — 635 ratings — published 2024
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 105 ratings — published 2025
The Oxford Handbook of Early China (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
The World of the Oxus Civilization (Routledge Worlds)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Archaeology of the Caucasus: From Earliest Settlements to the Iron Age (Cambridge World Archaeology)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
A Thousand Ships (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 87,966 ratings — published 2019
The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation of Near Eastern Civilizations: Weaving Together Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2012
Black Ships and Sea Raiders: The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Second Cretan Lie (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
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avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
Life and Society in the Hittite World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 101 ratings — published 2002
“We must now turn to the idea of a systems collapse, a systemic failure with both a domino and multiplier effect, from which even such a globalized international, vibrant, intersocietal network as was present during the Late Bronze Age could not recover.”
― 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
― 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
“But every day brought enlivening moments and laughter. One day a BBC crew appeared, driving down to the beach in a big black Range Rover. Everyone kept their heads down and pretended to be very busy as Hazel did the required. She showed the presenter Neil Oliver some prize finds, such as a polished Bronze Age pendant, but the producer wanted a retake. 'Can you emote more?' she asked Hazel. Then they went away.”
― Surfacing
― Surfacing
