Book Review: 1177 BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed
It was probably the most interesting year in history and you ve never even heard about it.
by Eric Cline
“Modern scholars refer to them collectively as the “Sea Peoples,” but the Egyptians who recorded their attack on Egypt never used that term,” Eric Cline poignantly writes in the beginning of his book on what he calls “the most interesting year in history.
We’re over 3,000 years in the past, and the Eastern Mediterranean is riddled with thriving civilizations. The Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans are all vying for progress and power, establishing refined trade routes that build on intermingled and surprisingly advanced civilizations. We’re 3,000 years in the past, and yet the people of the time are surprisingly like us.
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AMPD CEO Provides Corporate Update and Outlook for Q1 2021
February 4, 2021 GMT
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 4, 2021 / AMPD Ventures Inc. (“AMPD” or the “Company”) (CSE:AMPD)(FRA:2Q0), is pleased to provide its first quarterly update of the new year, providing an update on the progress made during 2020, as well as some glimpses into what the Company sees ahead in 2021.
AMPD is building the next generation of digital infrastructure with its “High Performance Computing at the Edge” platform. AMPD’s approach provides the increased performance and reduced latency required for applications such as virtual production, volumetric capture, animation and visual effects, multiplayer video games including eSports, artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and high-level academic research.
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Big History
For better or for
worse, we’re in a period of history when technology, innovation and
industry are roaring ahead as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s easy for
me to forget how different the world in which I now live is, compared
to the one in which I was born. 1942: Stalingrad, El Alamein, Midway;
computers and the digital age were in the future; the turbojet plane
was three years old; the first mobile phone four years away; the
Manhattan atomic bomb project was just getting underway; and for
every living person then, three are alive now. In the 78 years
Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority)
Beit Harel pre-military program students washing finds at the Beit Nattif archaeological excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
High school pupils at the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation of the earliest soap factory in Israel, in Rahat, a Beduin city in the Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Since most archaeologists had to hang up their shovels during pandemic-stricken 2020, they suddenly had time to work on their research and there’s a plethora of publications to prove it.
For the Conservative Reader: The Federalist’s Notable Books For 2020
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Well, they say hindsight is 2020 and thank God for that. Suffice to say, none of us are going to be wistfully blaring Ol’ Blue Eyes’ “It Was a Very Good Year” on New Year’s Eve. (Side note: Have you ever listened to the lyrics of that song? “It was a very good year / for blue-blooded girls of independent means.” Is Frank Sinatra being feminist or classist? I’m so confused.)
Anyway, if we’re going to go digging for some roast beef in this year’s crap sandwich, most of us had a little more time to read this year. That is good, because it’s time for The Federalist’s annual notable books column.