This course explores the rise and fall of the first international age in the eastern Mediterranean. We will focus on the cultural and diplomatic connections between Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and the Aegean during the Bronze Age, c. 2000-1200 BCE. Using archaeological and historical evidence we will explore the nature, extent and longevity of these connections and consider whether the Bronze Age really was the first age of ‘internationalism’.
- Instructor of record: Jennie Bradbury