The Fall of Egypt Explained

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/world/middleeast/pollen-study-points-to-culprit-in-bronze-era-mystery.html?pagewanted=1&hpw&_r=0

Intriguing story about how badly drought effected the Egyptian, Hittite and other Leventine civilizations and paved the way for their crash.