Visiting Fellow, Newcastle University
Guy Middleton is a visiting fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. His books include Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths (2017) and Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean (2020).
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Archaeology
Poseidon’s wrath
Vanished beneath the waves in 373 BCE, Helike is a byword for thinking about disaster, for ancients and moderns alike
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The ancient world
Do civilisations collapse?
The idea that the Maya or Easter Islanders experienced an apocalyptic end makes for good television but bad archaeology
Guy D Middleton