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Ancient History in Africa and Africa in Ancient History [PDF]

open access: yesHeródoto: Revista do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre a Antiguidade Clássica e suas Conexões Afro-asiáticas, 2019
Preface
openaire   +2 more sources

Veitstu hvé blóta skal? The Old Norse blót in the Light of Osteological Remains from Frösö Church, Jämtland, Sweden

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2010
The osteological remains from Frösö Church, Jämtland, have been re-analysed in order to understand the Viking Age rituals at the site and to study the blót, the Old Norse sacrifice and feast.
Ola Magnell, Elisabeth Iregren
doaj   +1 more source

An Approach to History from the Viewpoint of Philosophy of History of Zoroastrianism [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2017
Many intellectual schools in the world, either philosophical or religious, have presented special interpretation and approach in the concept of history and time.
Esmaeil Sangari, Alireza Karbasi
doaj   +1 more source

Physical Mathematics and The Fine-Structure Constant [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
core   +3 more sources

Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks

open access: yesNature, 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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Stone age transitions. Neolithisation in central Scandinavia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2003
A summary of a series of individual research projects focused on the processes from the Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic in central Scandinavia. The projects were embeded in the "Coast to Coast project". The historicity in this process was emphasised.
Helena Knutsson, Kjel Knutsson
doaj   +1 more source

HOW NINETEENTH‐CENTURY GERMAN CLASSICISTS WROTE THE JEWS OUT OF ANCIENT HISTORY

open access: yesHistory and Theory, 2019
This essay considers why Jewish antiquity largely fell outside the purview of ancient historians in the Germanies for over half a century, between 1820 and 1880, and examines the nature of those portraits that did, in fact, arise.
P. Kurtz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Then So Did the General’s Lady with Great Magnificence”: the Role of Noble Women in Byzantine Provincial Military Family

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
The article is devoted to the role of women in the families of the Byzantine provincial military nobility, in the middle of 9th – middle of 11th century. This issue remains poorly understood in historiography, and it is surely very urgent in light of the
Anton S. Mokhov, Karina R. Kapsalykova
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History

open access: yesJournal 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Method to measure Earth missed by ancient Greeks? [PDF]

open access: yesPhysics Education, Volume 47, Number 6, November 2012, 2020
I describe a simple method to calculate Earth dimensions using only local measurements and observations. I used modern technology (a digital photo camera and Google Earth) but the exact same method can be used without any aid, with naked eye observations and distances measured by walking, and so it was perfectly accessible to Ancient Greek science.
arxiv   +1 more source

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