Archaeologists discover temple that sheds light on so-called Dark Age

The discovery of a temple in Turkey dating the 9th or 10th century BCE is shedding light on a period of history up until now known for it's upheavals, famine and civilisation collapse, a Dark Age. Sources such as Homer depict the time, the transition of the Bronze to the Iron Age, as one of famine and war, and migrations such as the Sea Peoples which resulted in the collapse of Bronze Age civilisations.

However the excavations at Tayinat indicate a civilisation that was thriving at the time and appears to have been the capital of a Bronze Age kingdom. Though much work remains to be done at the site.