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If the apiary dates from the 10th to early 9th Centuries, as the article
suggests, then that's too vague to be certain about exactly why the apiary would
have been abandoned. However, it's known to have been an unsettled period,
The Egyptian New Kingdom, which had ruled the area, collapsed in the 11th
Century BC, after a wave of invasions by the 'Sea Peoples'. We're talking about
the period of the Philistines, a 'sea people' who continued until the 7th
Century BC. So, war has to be the most obvious guess, but it is a guess. We need
more information; was the city abandoned, or was it just this apiary? Is
there any evidence of widespread destruction, which might indicate that the city
was taken and sacked? And so on.
Regards,
Robert Brenchley,
Birmingham UK
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