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Empires at Dusk: How Civilizations End

Empires at Dusk: How Civilizations End

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 How civilizations end. Marcus Vale narrates the last decades of empires — Bronze Age to Soviet — in cinematic longform seasons. Weekly.

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  • Angkor: The City That Drowned in Rain

    Angkor: The City That Drowned in Rain
    Nov 1 2026
    Angkor's canals and reservoirs helped sustain a vast Khmer capital. Then decades of drought and fierce monsoons tested that connected water system. Tree rings, a sediment core from Angkor Thom and excavations at Angkor Wat tell a more complex story than one fatal flood or a city abandoned overnight. Climate mattered, while political power and the city's people followed different paths.

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    30 min
  • Egypt Alone: What Survived the Bronze Age Collapse

    Egypt Alone: What Survived the Bronze Age Collapse
    Oct 25 2026
    Egypt survived the late Bronze Age upheavals, but its New Kingdom empire did not remain intact. Empires at Dusk follows Ramesses III's victory reliefs, a long royal papyrus, a tomb-workers' stoppage, a literary journey abroad, and the later division of authority between Tanis and Thebes. Each source tells a different part of the change. The Sea Peoples were not a single proven cause, and Egypt did not vanish.

    Sources: University College London on Ramesses III: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/chronology/ramsesiii.html ; British Museum Great Harris Papyrus: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA9999-43 ; British Museum Abbott Papyrus: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10221-3 ; Metropolitan Museum on the New Kingdom: https://www.metmuseum.org/it/essays/egypt-in-the-new-kingdom-ca-1550-1070-b-c ; Metropolitan Museum on the Third Intermediate Period: https://www.metmuseum.org/ja/essays/egypt-in-the-third-intermediate-period-1070-712-b-c ; UCL on Wenamun as literature: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature/literaturelateegyptian.html . Checked 26 October 2026.

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  • Hattusa Emptied | Empires at Dusk

    Hattusa Emptied | Empires at Dusk
    Oct 18 2026
    The Hittite capital left behind walls, temples and thousands of clay records. How did a city that organised an empire cease to be its centre? Empires at Dusk follows Hattusa's stores, treaties, border pressures and the severe dry interval near the end of the Bronze Age. Archaeology suggests the royal elite may have left before the final burning; no source identifies a single destroyer or proves one cause. Hittite traditions continued beyond the old capital.

    Next episode: Egypt Alone.

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    31 min
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