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Drought Led to Collapse of Civilizations, Study Says
2013-10-24 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: What happened about 3,200 years ago to bring about the collapse of not just one but a number of flourishing civilizations on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean? A study of fossilized pollen particles taken from sediments at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee may have solved an intriguing historical mystery that has been troubling archaeologists for decades. "In a short period of time, the entire world of the Bronze Age crumbled," says Israel Finkelstein, an archaeologist at the Institute...
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