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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
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
Understanding Trade and Power in Early Egypt: A Geopolitical Approach
by Juan Carlos Moreno García
International trade is closely tied to the organization of power in Egypt, but it isn’t all about the royal court. Rather, commercial activity sometimes flourished when monarchies collapsed. Read More
A Minor Biblical Prophet Lives Again—Among the Dead
by Amy Erickson
Jonah is but a blip in the Hebrew Bible, with the thinnest of prophetic credentials. So why is his image so popular in early Christian funerary art? Read More
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