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Amulets and Cord Blood: Understanding Banking and Regenerative Medicine in Chennai, India. [PDF]
Med Anthropol, 2023 Umbilical cord blood stem cells can be extracted and collected in cord blood banks, potentially to be used for stem cell transplants in the case of blood and related disorders.
Panwar A.
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Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2020 An ethnobotanical survey was carried in Ndiki sub-division of the Central Region of Cameroon to collect information on the use of plants in the manufacture of amulets among the Banen ethnic group.
Madeleine Johnson, Evariste Fongnzossie
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Scanning and three-dimensional-printing using computed tomography of the “Golden Boy” mummy [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 Ancient Egyptian mummies represent an opportunity to learn more about the health, beliefs, and skills of humans in antiquity. A fully wrapped mummy, from a Late Ptolemaic cemetery (c.332-30 BC) in Edfu, Egypt, has been stored, unexamined, at the Cairo ...
Sahar N. Saleem +2 more
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X-ray spectroscopy study on Thai amulet of Phra Kru Nadune [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022 Thai Amulets are found in many forms in Thailand. They have been made by many different ethnic groups with different traditions. Phra Kru Nadune is one of the important amulets created in Dvaravati period that has been found at Nadune district ...
Won-in Krit +4 more
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Ritual curse in Egypt during prehistoric and early dynastic Periods طقوس اللعنة ومظاهرها في مصر خلال عصور ما قبل التاريخ والعصور المبكرة [PDF]
Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2021 الملخص: تُعد اللعنة نوعاً من أنواع إنزال العقاب أو الحرمان الإلهي؛ وذلك عن طريق القيام ببعض الممارسات والطقوس التي من شأنها إلحاق الأذى بشخص معين إما بطريقة مباشرة أو بطريقة غير مباشرة بحيث ينال المُذنب والمُعتدي عقوبة اللعن على أفعاله. عُرفت طقوس
dr/Zainab Abd Eltwab Riyad
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Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2021 Two contrasting portraits of exorcism in the Roman period for patients with symptoms consistent with epilepsy, drawn by Josephus (A.J. 8.45–47) and Lucian (Philops. §16), illustrate a substantial albeit contested diffusion of that ancient technique from
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
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Magical Amulets, Magical Thinking, and Semiotics in Early Byzantium
Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 2021 The term ‘magic’ is problematic. Magic studies have rapidly developed in recent decades and have suggested various ways of understanding the term, especially regarding objects from the medieval Roman Empire, Byzantium.
Jacquelyn Tuerk-Stonberg
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Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2021 This article examines illustrations of the zodiac signs on birth amulets from German- Jewish printing houses from the 18th century. These woodcuts are part of a long tradition of astrological references in Jewish art and literature. However, the amulet
Meininghaus, Alisha
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A medley of mummies from Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 The results of radiographic and visual examinations of four mummies originating from Deir el-Bahari, now kept in different museums throughout Egypt, are presented here.
Salima Ikram +3 more
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Magical Objects, Magical Writing: Amulets Across the Ages
Martor, 2023 This note focuses on recent discussions on gemstone amulets from Late Antiquity through insights offered in two contributions to the volume Textual Amulets from Antiquity to Early Modern Times: The Shape of Words (Theis and Vitellozzi 2022).
Hajnalka Tamás
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