S8 Ep582: 1. Eric Cline discusses the Late Bronze Age through the lens of the Uluburun shipwreck, which represents the era's globalized trade network. The ship's cargo, including copper from Cyprus and tin from Afghanistan, highlights the interconnectedness of civi
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
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1. Eric Cline discusses the Late Bronze Age through the lens of the Uluburun shipwreck, which represents the era's globalized trade network. The ship's cargo, including copper from Cyprus and tin from Afghanistan, highlights the interconnectedness of civilizations like the Egyptians, Hittites, and Mycenaeans. Cline explains that the collapse around 1177 BC was not caused by a single event but a "perfect storm" of factors, including drought, famine, earthquakes, and the Sea Peoples' migrations. This catastrophic sequence occurred so rapidly that societies lacked the time to recover, leading to a systemic failure of the ancient world's trade routes. (1)
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.8 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:15.4 | Ulybaran. |
| 0:16.9 | Ulybaran is a ship, a ship wreck in the Mediterranean. |
| 0:21.5 | It is also a time machine, 1,300 before the common era. |
| 0:28.2 | The ship, however, reveals what is about to be a revelation to me again. |
| 0:35.1 | After 1177 BC, the survival of civilization by Professor Eric Klein. |
| 0:42.4 | This is a sequel to a book Eric and I spoke of many years ago, which includes the Uliberon shipwreck. |
| 0:50.7 | 1177 BC, the year civilization collapsed. |
| 0:54.5 | That's 1177, so 123 years before, this ship is understood to have not met its conditions and sunk. |
| 1:05.5 | It's been recovered to a great extent. |
| 1:08.6 | Its cargo is the Bronze Age. |
| 1:11.8 | Professor, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:15.1 | This is a sentimental trip on my part |
| 1:18.6 | because I wanted to talk to you again |
| 1:20.4 | about your original genius, 1177 BC. |
| 1:24.5 | And then I learned that you had a sequel. |
| 1:26.4 | So here we are. |
| 1:29.6 | Not only the end of civilization, |
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