This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel, visiting with Professor Eric Klein.

His new book is a sequel to the original genius, 1177 BC.

The year civilization collapsed, dated.

This is the Bronze Age ending in a series of catastrophes, but it's about to introduce

the Iron Age. The way to think about this in terms of literature is the Odyssey and the Iliad

are the Bronze Age. The Iron Age that follows looks a whole lot like the Old Testament. So right now we're going to go

to Israel at the time and the Israelites via Egypt. Professor, there are lessons to be learned about how

some of the Big Eight, Big Seven, Big Six, the global traders of 1300 BC, how the ones succeeded

and the ones that didn't. Egypt had a series of rulers from Ramsey's III, I believe he was murdered

by his wife and his son, or her son, to Ramsey's 11.'ve this is the 22nd dynasty what do we find in there

that is that tells us the catastrophes 1177 is wearing them down what's in there so in the aftermath

of the collapse and ramses the third is the one who defeats the sea peoples that we've mentioned in 1177,

but he is then, as you just mentioned, assassinated apparently by his wife and son, a minor wife,

and his mummy's been found with his throat slashed. So after him, there's a

series of additional pharaohs that actually 19th, 20th, into the 21st and onward in terms of

dynasties. And we wind up with Egypt not doing so well, if I could put it that way.

They do manage to survive, but they are merely coping in the aftermath of the collapse rather than transforming or even adapting.

They are merely coping, and we find ourselves in the centuries after the collapse

in Egypt in what is known as the third intermediate period, which is a time of, shall we say,

anarchy and chaos, such that at one point we've got no fewer than three or even four different people calling themselves

Pharaoh in different regions of Egypt. So the upshot for us is that Egypt, which had been

one of the major players on the international stage, supplying gold, for instance, to most of the other great powers,

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