The Sea Peoples: The Ancient Mystery That Stumped Historians For Centuries — And What Modern Science Finally Revealed About Who They Really Were
The “Dark Ages” of Greece lasted from approximately 1150 to 800 BCE — three and a half centuries during which the sophistication of the Bronze Age was not recovered.
The Linear B script was lost so completely that even the memory of it disappeared.
When the Greeks of the classical period looked back at the Bronze Age heroes they called Agamemnon, Achilles, and Odysseus, they had no idea that these figures — if they had any historical basis — had once been administered by elaborate palace bureaucracies that kept detailed records in a writing system more complex than the alphabet the classical Greeks used.
The Hittite Empire was never rebuilt.