After 1177 BC.

In the sequel to his successful book, American archaeologist Eric H. Cline returns again to the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations in the Mediterranean and the Near East. This time, he focuses on the period following the collapse of these advanced societies. It shows that even in the midst of chaos, fundamental innovations emerged, from the spread of iron to new forms of writing. Using the example of strategies, which the Assyrians chose, Egyptians, Phoenicians and others, approximates, why some civilizations were able to survive huge upheavals, while others have completely disappeared.