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Phoenician Ivory, a Phrygian-Style Belt and Traces of Indian Pepper, Found Inside a Strange β€œDark Age” Tomb in Jordan

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were destroyed or emptied, writing disappeared from much of the region, and long-distance trade shrank to almost nothing. Archaeologists call what came next the dark age, and the name is earned: with few texts and almost no […]

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Una extraΓ±a tumba de la β€œedad oscura” hace 3000 aΓ±os contenΓ­a una mujer fenicia, un hombre frigio, otro del Egeo y pimienta negra de la India

Hacia el aΓ±o 1200 a.C. el mundo del MediterrΓ‘neo oriental se vino abajo. Cayeron los grandes imperios de la Edad del Bronce, se destruyeron o se vaciaron muchas ciudades, se perdiΓ³ la escritura en buena parte de la regiΓ³n y el comercio a larga distancia se redujo a lo mΓ­nimo. Los arqueΓ³logos llaman a lo […]

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