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April 2024

Vol. 12, No. 4

Pel and Shesha visit Avaris, the Hyksos capital. Text and illustration by Glynnis Fawkes.

From Words into Pictures: Adapting 1177 BC for Comics

By Glynnis Fawkes

How do you recreate the complex story of the Bronze Age collapse in comic book form? Illustrator Glynnis Fawkes lays it out for us. Read More

A kudurru recording purchase of land from the reign of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, King of Babylon ca. 1095-1078 BCE. Following the fall of the Kassite dynasty and the waning of Elamite power, a new dynasty from Isin emerged to control Babylon. Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Resilience and Rebirth: Lessons Learned from the Aftermath of the Late Bronze Age Collapse

By Eric H. Cline

Following the Late Bronze Age Collapse, different societies followed separate paths to recovery, while some didn’t recover at all. Do their examples hold any lessons for us today? Read More

How Did Cyrus the Great Die?

by Morteza Arabzadeh Sarbanani

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, died around 530 BCE, but the circumstances of his death are shrouded in myth. How did he really die? Read More