Covers the rise of the Phoenicians, the Greek city-states, the Hellenistic period, the Carthaginian empire, and the entirety of Roman dominance up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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The bronze age civilisations in the Middle East, the Mitanni, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Hittites, have gone. Only Egypt and the Elamites survived the chaos of the bronze age collapse, both weakened and soon to be conquered by a resurgent Assyria. Surprising survivors, barely affected...
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The nature of maritime trading practices fundamentally changed after the Bronze Age collapse. Competition between the new trading nations, the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks and ultimately the Romans, increased, resulting in the first trade wars. Meanwhile adventurers explored new...
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The eastern Mediterranean maritime trading networks of the Bronze Age fractured following the disruption of the Bronze Age collapse. Many of the major maritime trading hubs in the Levant, such as Ugarit (destroyed between 1190 – 1185 BC), Ashkelon and Ashdod (both destroyed about 1190 BC), had...
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The collapse of the Bronze Age empires in the Middle East, exacerbated by a fracture of the land based and maritime trading routes, saw a hiatus in ship design. New demands on the coastal cities in the eastern Mediterranean by emerging empires caused a resurgence in overseas trade with a consequent...
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After 1200 BC, the Bronze Age civilisations in the Middle East either collapsed or re-invented themselves. It is noticeable that very few shipwrecks have been found in the Mediterranean Sea that can be dated between 1200 and 800 BC. Did the so called collapse of the Bronze Age fracture the maritime...
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We are going to be looking at wrecks from the Roman Republic, 509 BC, until the end of the Roman Empire in 476 AD.
Rome transitioned into a significant maritime power during the Punic Wars, specifically between 264 and 146 BC, culminating in their dominance over the Mediterranean Sea after...
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