The Neo-Hittite successor states of northern Syria were regional powers of some importance, but they never came close to the territorial scope or the political sophistication of the great empire at Hattusa.

The Hittite language — the oldest recorded Indo-European language, preserved in the Hittite archives — ceased to be used and was forgotten, only rediscovered by modern scholars in the twentieth century.

Ugarit was never rebuilt.

The greatest trading city of the Bronze Age Levant remained uninhabited after its destruction around 1185 BCE, its site preserved under the tells of the Syrian coast until archaeologists began excavating it in 1929.

The international trade networks of the Bronze Age — the tin routes from Afghanistan, the copper trade from Cyprus, the luxury goods exchange that connected Egypt to the Aegean to the Levant — collapsed and were not rebuilt in the same form for centuries.