In 1177 BC, historian Eric H. Klein takes us to a pivotal moment that shook the ancient world, when great civilizations that had flourished for centuries in the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and Egypt suddenly collapsed. From the invasion of the Sea Peoples to internal revolts, devastating earthquakes, deadly drought, and the interruption of international trade routes, Klein paints a captivating panorama of the end of the Bronze Age, when kingdoms fell one by one like dominoes. The book reveals that what happened was not the conspiracy of a single power, but rather a complex series of human and natural disasters that intertwined to open the door to the "First Dark Ages." Thanks to this exciting narrative, the reader will find himself at the heart of a fateful historical event that explains how and why the greatest civilizations of the ancient world fell within a few decades.

إريك إتش. كلاين (مواليد 1960) عالم آثار ومؤرخ أمريكي متخصّص في الشرق الأدنى القديم، وأستاذ الكلاسيكيات والأنثروبولوجيا في جامعة جورج واشنطن. اشتهر بكتابه «1177 ق.م: السنة التي انهارت فيها الحضارة».