About the hypothesis of Professor Klein, who tried to explain the mysterious death of many ancient civilizations
You probably noticed that in ancient times there were a huge number of peoples and civilizations on the territory of our planet, but as a result, most of them ceased to exist. What happened - were they mired in military conflicts or were they destroyed by some powerful natural disaster?
Or maybe everything happened at the same time? Unfortunately, it will never be possible to answer this question unequivocally, scientists can only make hypotheses and assumptions.
One American researcher Eric Klein has long been studying the ancient civilizations that existed during the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia.
And he came to the conclusion that most of them died in the interval between 1225 and 1177 BC. And the last date was the moment of the beginning of the Dark Ages (according to Professor Klein).
The researcher suggested that in such a short time a series of terrible natural disasters took place in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, among which were:
1) drought, crop failure and hunger
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2) Climate change
3) Powerful tremors
There were also natural cataclysms - the invasion of these lands by barbarians, civil wars and many military conflicts. Many ancient civilizations suffered from all this - Egypt, Babylon, Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, Hittites, etc.
The American suggested that they were all closely linked by cultural, trade and political ties and simply could not survive so many natural disasters. Klein called this chain of tragic events "the perfect storm."
According to the professor, when any one natural disaster strikes, then civilizations and peoples can calmly cope with it, but when cataclysms go one after another, then a sad stage of the death of civilizations begins.
There is another version, according to which many civilizations of antiquity could be destroyed by the so-called "sea peoples". Who these people were is still a mystery. There are many versions.
According to one of them, on the territory of each state there were mercenaries and thugs, whom the local elite used to solve their problems, generously paying them. However, the moment came when the violence became less and the mercenaries were left out of work - no one wanted to pay them.
And then they gathered in a huge army and began to attack everyone in a row. According to another version, these people could be representatives of an unknown ancient civilization, because they simply destroyed some of the people, and took the other part captive.
And the slaves had to be used somewhere. The first information about the peoples of the sea is found in the ancient annals of Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses III.
According to some researchers, the peoples of the sea destroyed a huge number of cities. But Professor Klein urges not to blame the peoples of the sea. Recent studies of the Sea of Gallilee have shown that from about 1250 to 1100 BC, the area was much more arid and desolate.
Also, information about the drought was found on clay tablets found on the territory of the Israeli city of Apheke and the cities of Emare and Ugarit.
It is worth noting that a series of terrible natural disasters, which led to the death of a huge number of ancient civilizations, is only one of the versions.
But if everything was really so, then the question arises - what was the beginning of such a catastrophe? Any pole shift, planetary orbit change, or something else?
Indeed, in our time, nothing like this has ever happened, which means that the situation was really unique and out of the ordinary. And why did it affect such a vast territory? However, we will probably never know the answer to these questions.