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Four cities. Four different endings.

Ugarit was destroyed. Hattusa’s administration left. Enkomi rebuilt, and Kition kept working. Compare what the evidence actually shows.

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Open the world atlas or start with a region. The collapse investigation focuses on 1250–1100 BCE; the broader atlas includes earlier and later context.

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Follow a question

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How this world worked

Begin with the people, institutions and materials that made the Bronze Age world possible.

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7 minute read

Follow the copper

A mine, a workshop, a cargo, and a recycled object reveal different parts of exchange.

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6 minute read

Work, food, and care

Meet a community through its documents and the traces of working bodies.

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5 minute read

What survived the collapse?

Follow institutions, work and communities into the centuries after 1200 BCE.

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Stories, beliefs, and later memories

Ancient traditions and modern explanations have histories of their own.

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Compare interpretations

What caused the changes?

Test climate, conflict, institutions and exchange against their evidence and limits.

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Meet a place

Read with the evidence

These are editorial introductions to an uneven research collection. The sources and competing accounts remain available; confidence is distinct from specialist review.

Atlas editorial synthesis · prepared with Codex · 6 September 2026 · specialist review pending