Three millennia ago, the great civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean did not fall to a single catastrophe but were worn down by the convergence of natural forces no human institution could anticipate or withstand. New research from Stockholm University reveals that overlapping climate cycles — each amplifying the others — drove droughts of extraordinary severity across a region already slowly drying, collapsing the agricultural foundations of the Mycenaeans, Minoans, and Hittites alike. The study is a reminder that civilizations are not undone by singular blows but by the quiet accumulati
Multiple climate cycles converged to trigger Bronze Age collapse droughts
Multiple Bronze Age civilizations experienced social and economic collapse linked to drought-driven food scarcity and resource depletion.