When I was young, I used to build elaborate castles out of wooden blocks. Then, my younger brother Ben, would come running through and smash it all to pieces. Ben was a metaphor for the way my high school history book1 presented a variety of groups like the Mongols, the Huns, the Vikings, and the … Continue reading Eric H. Cline’s “1177BC”: Bronze Age Bogeymen & the Fate of Civilization