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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Beyond Amarna: exorcists without borders in the Levant
Diacrítica, 2023 The Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean formed a special sphere of activity for diverse specialists who navigated from one side to the other through extensive networks of interconnections in the Late Bronze Age.
Graciela Gestoso Singer
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, 2021 Étude sur les noms de personne contenant des toponymes et attestés ans des textes datant des périodes présargoniquers et sargoniques (env. 2800-2100 av. J.-C.)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 228-247, August 2025.Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
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The 'Shuilisu Archive' and other Sargonic Texts in Akkadian [PDF]
, 2015 Transliteration, translation, photos, and commentary of an Old Akkadian archive from Umm-el-Hafriyat (central Iraq, ca 2250 BCE).
Westenholz, Aage, Milano, Lucio
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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From Stylus to Sign: a Sketch of Old Akkadian Palaeography [PDF]
, 2015 The corpus of Old Akkadian inscriptions has increased enormously in recent years. Nevertheless, framing the available evidence within a chronological grid is often a difficult task.
MAIOCCHI Massimo
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Sumerian and Akkadian in Old Babylonian Incantation Tablets [PDF]
Incantations are magical recitations intended to manipulate reality for the benefit of the reciter or their client. Throughout the history of ancient Iraq, otherwise known as Mesopotamia, these recitations were inscribed onto clay tablets and performed ...
Gill, Nicholas Michael
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Material Profiling of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals by Raman Spectroscopy
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 228-242, March 2025.Mesopotamian cylinder seals (fourth ‐ first millennium bce) from the collection of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy were non‐destructively studied by Raman spectroscopy. The Raman spectral analysis identified the mineral constituents and quantitatively determined the chemical compositions of the
Stylianos Aspiotis +5 more
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Grammatical studies in the Akkadian dialects of Babylon and Uruk, 556-500 B.C. [PDF]
, 2017 Neo-Babylonian (NB) was the last surviving dialect of the Semitic language known as Akkadian and it was still being used for the compilation of records at the beginning of our era.
Hueter, Gwyneth
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