finally finished 'In search of the Trojan war'

Last night I watched the final episode of 'In search of the Trojan war' on DVD. Despite being more than 30 years old, this is an excellent BBC documentary.  In the final episode, Michael Wood explores not only the fall of Troy but also the fall of Mycenae Greece which according to Homer, sacked Troy.  He then goes on to talk about the Bronze Age Collaspse, which plunged the Eastern Med into a 500 year long dark age.  A dark age where people stopped writing things down and went back to oral histories being passed down by mouth.