Hittite royal archive found in Turkey(thehistoryblog.com)
370 points by benbreen | 88 comments
The History Blog post about the discovery of a Hittite royal archive in Turkey; the capture shows only a security check page.
#ancient-history on Hacker News
6 stories tagged ancient-history, newest first.
Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan(veiledantiquity.com)
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.
Gods in the Classroom: Religion and Education in First Millennium BCE Babylonia(cambridge.org)
51 points by pseudolus | 33 comments
Open-access article in the Cambridge journal Iraq examining the role of religion in scribal education in first millennium BCE Babylonia.
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)
3 points by measurablefunc | 2 comments
A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.
Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)
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.
Late Bronze Age Collapse(acoup.blog)
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.