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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.

Episodes are produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review. A Talking Labs production.© Talking Labs World
Episodes
  • The Sea Peoples and a Broken Bronze Age

    The Sea Peoples and a Broken Bronze Age
    27 Sep 2026
    Egypt carved a victory over the groups later called the Sea Peoples. Ugarit's last tablets describe danger at sea; Hattusa tells a different story of an emptied capital. Empires at Dusk follows the monuments, letters and archaeology to ask what these groups did, and what one famous label cannot explain.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    31 mins
  • Ugarit's Last Letter

    Ugarit's Last Letter
    20 Sep 2026
    A clay tablet warns of enemy ships while Ugarit's troops and fleet are away. This episode follows the late Bronze Age correspondence, separates the evidence from the famous final-letter legend, and asks how a connected kingdom could still fail to act in time.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    30 mins
  • The Year the Bronze Age Ended

    The Year the Bronze Age Ended
    12 Sep 2026
    Around 1177 BC, almost every kingdom in the eastern Mediterranean fell apart — Ugarit, the Hittite empire, the Mycenaean palaces — inside roughly a lifetime. Marcus Vale traces the collapse from a pottery kiln full of letters that were baked by the fire that destroyed the city. Bronze that needed tin from Afghanistan, a script that died with the palaces that used it, a drought with a date on it, and why the Sea Peoples were a symptom rather than a cause. Season one, episode one.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    28 mins
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