Find your way into the Bronze Age.
Discover how communities lived, traded and adapted—and investigate why the end of a palace was not always the end of a world.
Four cities. Four different endings.
Ugarit was destroyed. Hattusa’s administration left. Enkomi rebuilt, and Kition kept working. Compare what the evidence actually shows.
Begin the investigation →Prefer to explore freely?
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.
Open the world atlasFollow a question
How this world worked
Begin with the people, institutions and materials that made the Bronze Age world possible.
Follow the evidence →7 minute readFollow the copper
A mine, a workshop, a cargo, and a recycled object reveal different parts of exchange.
Follow the evidence →6 minute readWork, food, and care
Meet a community through its documents and the traces of working bodies.
Follow the evidence →5 minute readWhat survived the collapse?
Follow institutions, work and communities into the centuries after 1200 BCE.
Follow the evidence →5 minute readStories, beliefs, and later memories
Ancient traditions and modern explanations have histories of their own.
Follow the evidence →Compare interpretationsWhat caused the changes?
Test climate, conflict, institutions and exchange against their evidence and limits.
Compare explanations →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