12 Bronze Age Civilizations That Left Behind Survivors We Never Knew About

12 Bronze Age Civilizations That Left Behind Survivors We Never Knew About In the eastern Adriatic, around one thousand BC, a warrior people were carving hilltop fortresses into limestone ridges so precisely engineered that Roman legions would spend two centuries trying to dismantle them, and mostly fail. These were the Illyrians, and they controlled the western Balkans across what is now Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, and Montenegro, building a civilization that history has almost entirely chosen to forget.