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The Phoenicians under empire, Assyria, Persia, Alexander, and the slow death of a seafaring civilization

For centuries, the Phoenician city-states survived conquest after conquest, bending but never quite breaking beneath the ...
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Tree rings reveal drought that might have doomed the Hittites

Three years of minimal rain could have forced the ancient civilization to abandon its capital — and perhaps triggered the empire’s ultimate collapse. The ancient Anatolian empire of the Hittites ...