<story><title>The Bronze Age has never looked stronger</title><url>https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>Is there a good documentary film or series about this period, which you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>namaria</author><text>The Bronze age collapse is one of my favorite topics in History. And I see a lot of parallels between the centralized palace economies that produced much brittleness then and the &amp;#x27;everything is controlled by networked digital computers and defined in software&amp;#x27; Ruby Goldberg machine of a civilization we have now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben_bai</author><text>1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=M4LRHJlijVU&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Bronze Age has never looked stronger</title><url>https://www.thechatner.com/p/its-1178-bce-and-the-bronze-age-has</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>einpoklum</author><text>Is there a good documentary film or series about this period, which you could recommend?</text></item><item><author>namaria</author><text>The Bronze age collapse is one of my favorite topics in History. And I see a lot of parallels between the centralized palace economies that produced much brittleness then and the &amp;#x27;everything is controlled by networked digital computers and defined in software&amp;#x27; Ruby Goldberg machine of a civilization we have now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DubiousPusher</author><text>Patrick Wyman&amp;#x27;s, Tides of History podcast has done a lot of episodes on this and is a great introduction.&lt;p&gt;Yale&amp;#x27;s introductory Greek history class with lectures from Donald Kagan is available online and part of it covers the Mycenaean empire and its fall.</text></comment>