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Article: University of Toronto archeologists discover temple that sheds light on so-called Dark Age.
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- May 17, 2009
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The discovery of a remarkably well-preserved monumental temple in Turkey -- thought to be constructed during the time of King Solomon in the 10th/9th-centuries BC -- sheds light on the so-called Dark Age.
Uncovered by the University of Toronto's Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP) in the summer of 2008, the discovery casts doubt upon the traditional view that the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age was violent, sudden and culturally disruptive.
Ancient sources -- such as the Homeric epics and the Hebrew Bible -- depict an era of widespread famine, ethnic conflict and population movement, most famously including the migrations of the ...