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Time for Middle East to choose if it wants to be Bronze Age Ugarit or Phoenicia
Three thousand years ago, around 1177 BC, the most connected world of its age came apart within a single lifetime. Egypt, the Hittites, Babylon, Mycenaean Greece, Cyprus and the port city of Ugarit, in what is today northern Syria, had built a remarkable system of trade and diplomacy. Kings wrote to one another as “brothers”. Copper, tin, grain and ideas mov