This is John Bachelor, a little under the weather, unless it's fun to listen to Eric Klein for his book,

after 1177 BC. Civilization collapsed in the Mediterranean Basin, eastern side, 1177 and the new book

is about the reawakening.

All of the players, remarkably, can be echoed in today's world, the Israelites, the Neo-Assyrians,

the Hittites, which is a version of the Turks, but we're looking at it same geography same

battle scenes what 4,000 years later. Here's Eric Klein on the Battle of Karkamish, Karkamish itself, the Lords of Karkamish,

and how the Iron Age was making a difference between those who had been successful in the Bronze

Age and those who were not.

This is the end of the Bronze Age, the beginning of the Iron Age, which brings us the Romans.

More of this later tonight.

Yeah, it says that they've, all of these, we have the, all right, so we have an inscription from Shamanesal the third, the Neo-Aserian king, in about 853 BC,

and he actually names all the people that are lined up against him and so Karkamish is in there the

Israelites are in there Egypt is in there in fact that's where we get a mention of

Ahab the Israelite coming with men and chariots.

Shamin user was victorious though.

He beat them all, including the contingent from Karkamish.

And in fact, he then goes on and names a number of different times in other inscriptions.

One particular ruler, a guy named Sangar,

S-A-G-A-R, seems to be a king of Karkamish

round about this time and just whales on the guy for decades exacting tribute and so on.

So the Battle of Carcar is one of our most important dates and linchpins at this time because it ties together a lot of the societies that

we're talking about here. In fact, the Neo-Assyrians are the thread that runs through much of my sequel. the

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