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🗓️ 25 August 2022
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We know the late Bronze Age world eventually collapsed, but what made it a world in the first place? The answer lies in the intense connections - trade, politics, and culture - that tied together a vast area of the ancient world, from Mycenaean Greece to Elamite Iran and the Caucasus Mountains to the Upper Nile in Nubia.
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0:05.6 | The goals perched on the rocks above the beach looked down at the sailors' toiling on the |
0:21.2 | wet sand. |
0:22.2 | They squawked and cawed and flapped their wings, the sound audible over the gentle splashing |
0:26.9 | of the waves. |
0:28.6 | For their part, the sailors grunted and heaved with the effort. |
0:32.0 | The metal ingots were heavy, and there were dozens of them. |
0:34.6 | Most of them the dull reddish orange of copper but some silvery tin. |
0:39.2 | Pauling them out of the ships hold one by one, carrying them down onto the beach and handing |
0:43.6 | them off to the waiting portors was hard work. |
0:46.1 | And they had to work fast. |
0:47.4 | The tide would be coming in soon, and their ship, currently high and dry on the sand, would |
0:51.8 | be floating away as soon as the blue waters of the Aegean rose high enough. |
0:56.8 | Over the ingots came the big ceramic storage jars. |
0:59.9 | They were heavy too, but at least they had carrying handles on each side. |
1:03.6 | The contents slashed and shifted as the sailors unloaded them, some full of oil, others |
1:07.7 | whine, others figs or pomegranates. |
1:12.6 | When man tripped as he hefted a jar up onto his shoulder, the container shattered when |
1:16.5 | it hit the hard sand, its precious contents oozing onto the beach. |
1:21.3 | That earned the sailor curses in half a dozen languages from the ship's master, and |
1:24.8 | merchant from Canaan. |
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