No sign of foreigners in Turkey's Bronze Age Alalakh burials despite it being 'international age' -- Secret History -- Sott.net
© Ingman et al., 2021. PLOS ONE. Map showing location of Alalakh in Turkey.A new study published in PLOS ONE reports genetic and oxygen and strontium isotopic data for individuals buried at Alalakh, finding little evidence for the foreigners mentioned in texts. The Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean has long been considered by researchers to have been the 'first international age,' especially the period from 1600-1200 BC, when powerful empires from Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt set up large networks of subordinate client kingdoms in the Near East. These empires fought, traded, and ...
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