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Tamil merchant in ancient Mesopotamia. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians.
Malliya Gounder Palanichamy   +5 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Stroke in Ancient Mesopotamia. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Arch, 2018
More than 6000 years ago, the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia, grew-up in what is known today as Iraq. The history of cerebrovascular diseases in Mesopotamia is insufficient to supply scholar needs. Therefore, the goal of this review is to highlight some remarkable points in the history of what we may coin as "stroke medicine" during the ancient ...
Karim SK, Amin OSM.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Pleiades in ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this paper I will analyse the different features of the Pleiades in the astronomical, astrological, and calendrical interpretation as well as their mythical and cultural background in ancient Mesopotamia.
VERDERAME, Lorenzo
core   +2 more sources

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

open access: yesHealth Promotion & Physical Activity, 2019
The beginnings of the history of Mesopotamia date back to the mid second millennium before Christ. Various peoples settled down in that region and created more or less stable state organisms which, as the centauries passed, demonstrated and shared common
Jerzy Supady
doaj   +2 more sources

Päikesekuninga kontseptsiooni tekkest ja arengust Anatoolias II eelkristlikul aastatuhandel [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2009
The concept of sun king was widely spread in ancient cultures, for example in Peru (among the Incas), India, and the Ancient Middle East already in the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC.
Vladimir Sazonov
doaj   +3 more sources

Ancient Cylinder Seals from Upper Mesopotamia

open access: yesAnadolu Araştırmaları, 2023
This study examines 14-cylinder seals from the Diyarbakır Archeology Museum. Unfortunately, the museum inventory does not provide any information about their definition, period, or the culture they belong to.
Çağatay Yücel, Umut Parlıtı
doaj   +5 more sources

An archaeomagnetic study of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Data from the marriage of paleomagnetism and archaeology (archaeomagnetism) are the backbone of attempts to create geomagnetic field models for ancient times. Paleointensity experimental design has been the focus of intensive efforts and the requirements
Anita Di Chiara   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

EFFECT OF MESOPOTAMIAN CIVILIZATIONS ON THE RELIGIONS OF ARABS BEFORE ISLAM [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2021
Worship, beliefs and various religious rituals gained a significant place in the lives of Arabs since the period of the civilizations of Mesopotamia. Then, pre-Islamic Arabs had the same importance as they adopted these beliefs.
Hadeel Ghaleb Abbas
doaj   +1 more source

EARLY EVIDENCE OF BOXING IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY [PDF]

open access: yesShedet, 2020
This paper investigates early evidence of boxing as a sport in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Its representations were relatively rare in both cultures, because of the essentially static nature of their arts.
Fawziah Mohamed
doaj   +1 more source

Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq)

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Multi-cropping was vital for provisioning large population centers across ancient Eurasia. In Southwest Asia, multi-cropping, in which grain, fodder, or forage could be reliably cultivated during dry summer months, only became possible with the ...
Elise Jakoby Laugier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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