Back in March, we talked about a
3,200-year old massive battle
that took place in the cultural ‘backwaters’ of Bronze Age northern
Europe (circa 13th century BC), and how this mysterious encounter
involved over 4,000 well-armed men from different regions, including
Poland, Holland, Scandinavia and even Southern Europe. Intriguingly
enough, there also seems to be a date-oriented significance relating to
13th century BC. Within a generation of these contemporary times, the
increasing scale of warfare and over-arching political affairs seemed to
have swept through many parts of the known world, including the eclipse
of the Mycenaean Greeks, the invasion of Egypt by the ‘sea-people’ and
the concurrent downfall of the Hittites. And furthermore, there is also
the literary narrative of the Trojan War – a large scale conflict (and
possibly the proverbial ‘last hurrah’ of the Mycenaeans) that pitted the
Greeks against the mystifying Trojans. Considering all these ‘mega’
events of the ancient times, archaeologist Eberhard Zangger has alluded
to what he calls ‘World War Zero’ – a seemingly cataclysmic scenario
that severely affected and ultimately shattered the thriving nature of
eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age civilizations.
