ARCHAEOLOGY

CYCLES OF TIME

Human history doesn’t travel in a straight line but moves through cycle after cycle—of birth and death, boom and bust, rise and fall. In this issue, you will encounter stories about the different ways people of the past experienced these inevitable cycles.

The Neo-Assyrian

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