The Bronze Age Collapse affected millions of people across an area stretching from the Aegean to the Levant to Egypt.

Cities were destroyed, empires ended, populations were displaced.

This was an event of enormous human consequence, comparable in scale and disruption to the fall of the Western Roman Empire more than a millennium later.

And yet the documentary evidence for it fits in a relatively small number of archives.

The Egyptian records from Medinet Habu and a handful of other sources.

The cuneiform tablets from Ugarit, Alalakh, and a few other sites.