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Landless peasants, soilless cultivation: British agricultural experimentation and intervention in post‐independence Iraq (1932–1958)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 603-610, March 2026.
‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
wiley   +1 more source

Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
wiley   +1 more source

Telloh (Late Dynastic Period - The Imperial Akkadian Period) : Stele of Rimush (Sargon's son), c. 2460-2290 BC (Louvre) [PDF]

, 2020
Usual layout in superimposed registers, but break with convention in the representation of figures. Instead of being grouped in the compact phalanx of the Sumerians, the Akkadian fighting men move in looser formations.
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Parrot, Andre   +1 more
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Soldiers and Prisoners in Motion in Mesopotamian Iconography during the Early Bronze Age

Arts
Military images of the ancient Near East during the Early Bronze Age are characterized by one of their main features: the serial reproduction of soldiers and prisoners, side by side, the former clearly identifiable by the visual signs of power they bear ...
Barbara Couturaud
doaj   +1 more source

A Century of Drought Research (1900–2023): Scientific Developments, Methodological Innovations, and Emerging Frontiers

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Drought significantly affects water resources, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems, revealing enduring socio‐economic vulnerabilities over the centuries. This review synthesizes a century of development and recent advances in drought research (1900–2023), drawing on a bibliometric analysis of over 152,000 peer‐reviewed publications. The review
Amitesh Sabut, Ashok Mishra
wiley   +1 more source

Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]

, 2010
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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Dissemination and price of cotton in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium BCE

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019
The archaeological finds attest that cotton textiles appeared in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium B.C. The first attempt to cultivate this plant, according to the available written sources, was by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, and also dates back ...
Louise Quillien
doaj   +1 more source

The contest scene in Akkadian glyptic: A study of its imagery and function within the Akkadian empire [PDF]

, 2003
This dissertation examines the development and use of the imagery of the contest scene depicted on cylinder seals—glyptic art—produced during the Akkadian period in greater Mesopotamia.
Rakic, Yelena Zora
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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 24-38, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper builds on previous attempts to estimate radiocarbon‐inferred population trends—although in Arabia, these attempts are few. A probabilistic reconstruction of Bronze Age (3200–1300 cal BC) demographic trends using a new data set of radiocarbon rates from across the Arabian Peninsula (n = 1280) is presented and a subset of dates (n ...
James R. P. McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Reengineering Akkadian Tablets with TEI and TXM for Linguistic Analysis [PDF]

, 2015
International audienceThis paper presents a project involving TEI encoding of Akkadian tablets for their further analysis with TXM software. The goal of the project is to analyze the vocabulary, spelling and syllabary of a corpus of Akkadian letters, to ...
Béranger, Marine, Heiden, Serge, Lavrentiev, Alexei   +2 more
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