377 points by AnodicElegy | 259 comments
A Works in Progress newsletter feature by Patrick Fitzsimmons arguing that drought, famine and invaders cannot explain why Bronze Age empires never recovered.
409 points by dmonay | 287 comments
A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry giving a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
4 points by darkwater | 0 comments
Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.
391 points by elsewhen | 384 comments
A Substack essay by Tove K on Wood From Eden arguing why human societies developed so little over 300,000 years, linking stagnation to violence.
136 points by mikk14 | 30 comments
Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.
402 points by cacher | 220 comments
A Classical Wisdom Substack newsletter post listing 12 Ancient Greek terms, such as eudaimonia and arete, that the author argues deserve modern revival.