MemeMachineGo!

I can’t believe I’d never heard of this.

In the space of about 27 years, everything turned upside down. Out of all of the major bronze age cities [in and around the Middle East] we know of, all but two were attacked and burned viciously to the ground by unknown invaders or rebels. The first city burned around 1225 BCE. The last sighting of the city burners was when they were defeated at great cost by Ramses II in the Second Battle of the Sea Peoples in 1198 BCE.

And we don’t know who did it.

Wikipedia’s article on the Bronze Age Collapse.

(Via The Early Days of a Better Nation)