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Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
Nature, 2022 Ancient history relies on disciplines such as epigraphy—the study of inscribed texts known as inscriptions—for evidence of the thought, language, society and history of past civilizations1. However, over the centuries, many inscriptions have been damaged
Yannis Assael +8 more
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Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2019 The subjective interpretation of probability—increasingly influential in other fields—makes probability a useful tool of historical analysis. It provides a framework that can accommodate the significant epistemic uncertainty involved in estimating ...
Myles Lavan
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Atossa’s Dream Yoking Music and Dance, Antiquity and Modernity in Maurice Emmanuel’s Salamine (1929) [PDF]
, 2012 This essay explores the conflicting trends of tradition and modernism, unity and independence in Parisian musical and dance culture in the late 1920s through an analysis of Maurice Emmanuel’s (1863-1938) aesthetics of contemporary and ancient Greek music
Samuel Dorf
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Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
, 2019 List of figures Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Plates Introduction: history and papyri 1 The culture of papyrus 2 Ancient and modern choices in documentation Languages and scripts Who wrote what Survival of papyri Restoring ...
R. Bagnall
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Ancient Admixture in Human History
Genetics, 2012 Population mixture is an important process in biology. We present a suite of methods for learning about population mixtures, implemented in a software package called ADMIXTOOLS, that support formal tests for whether mixture occurred and make it possible ...
N. Patterson +8 more
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Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]
, 2011 The colonization rates of understorey plants into forests growing on former agricultural land differ remarkably among species. Different dispersal and recruitment largely account for the contrasting colonization rates, but different effects of the soil ...
Baeten, Lander +6 more
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Statistics in Ancient History [PDF]
, 2013 This paper uses new data to extend the argument that there was an integrated wheat market in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I explore the meaning of randomness when data are scarce, and I investigate how we recreate the nature of ...
Temin, Peter
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A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes
bioRxiv, 2021 The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionised our understanding of human history and evolution1,2. However, the general problem of how best to characterise the full complexity of ancestral relationships from the ...
A. Wohns +9 more
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]
, 2015 The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Physical Mathematics and The Fine-Structure Constant [PDF]
, 2018 Research into ancient physical structures, some having been known as the seven wonders of the ancient world, inspired new developments in the early history of mathematics.
Sherbon, Michael A.
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